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PROVIDENCE – The series of listening sessions for the State Plan for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders saw sessions last week in Barrington and Woonsocket, with another planned this week.
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WARWICK – Dr. Peter Graves of West Greenwich has been named chief of emergency medicine at Kent Hospital.
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PROVIDENCE – A new basketball court to promote physical activity and wellness for the more than 60 students attending the special-education school run by The Providence Center opened on Nov. 28.
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CRANSTON – A statewide community health-needs assessment database will be available online in the spring of 2013, the Hospital Association of Rhode Island announced recently.
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PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital recently unveiled the area’s only hospital-based simulation center dedicated exclusively to the needs of women and newborns.
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Healing fractured bones can be a messy business. Surgeons often employ a toolbox of metal rods, plates, screws and nails to align and stabilize fissured bones. The difficulty of the task worsens with aging or osteoporotic bones.
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By Robin Respaut
Contributing Writer | 12/17/12 |
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The blood of an entrepreneur has always coursed through Michael Nula’s veins.
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By John A. Lahtinen |
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For some people, the drive to learn new things and acquire new skills stops. Maybe they’re tired of pushing themselves, maybe they don’t have time – whatever the case, it’s not a priority.
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By Jenn Salcido |
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Brown University’s Executive Master of Healthcare Leadership program has created a nine-member advisory committee to help the program focus on the nation’s rapidly changing health care landscape.
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By PBN Staff
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– As part of its review of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island’s request to raise its 2013 rates, R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F. Koller has scheduled a public input meeting on Jan. 9, 2013, from 1-2:30 p.m. at the R.I. Department of Labor and Training offices, 1511 Pontiac Ave., Building 73-1.
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By Richard Asinof |