After a year of organizational soul searching, BioNJ announced Thursday a rebranding of the organization to “BioNJ, The Gateway to Health.” The concept is to better represent its a broadened orientation regarding its role in the life sciences industry in New Jersey.

Summit Medical Group will build an outpatient cancer center in excess of 100,000 square feet in northern New Jersey as part of the clinical affiliation it announced last month with MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Wayne-based Toys R Us — which sells merchandise in 876 Toys R Us and Babies R Us stores in the United States and Puerto Rico, and in more than 725 international stores and more than 200 licensed stores in 36 countries and jurisdictions — plans to open approximately 90 stores worldwide by the end of 2014.

Bayonne Medical Center has completed a $1 million renovation of its emergency department, designed both to increase capacity to handle surges in patient volume, for example during flu season, and to provide updated medical technology and more patient convenience and comfort.

TruPlan, the multiple-employer health plan launched in 2013 and sponsored by Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, will wind down operations by year's end after failing to attract enough members beyond its core group of hospital employees to put it on a financially sustainable footing.

Retail vacancy along six of New Jersey's major shopping corridors fell in the third quarter to a five-year low of 7.3 percent, according to a new study by the brokerage firm R.J. Brunelli.

New Jersey’s hospitals are working with state Health Commissioner Mary O’Dowd on how to implement her recommendations to increase the financial information that hospitals — both nonprofit and for-profit — make available to the public.