Karen Gavin
The heat is still on for housing market
Despite stock market volatility, high energy prices and local layoffs, the R.I. Association of Realtors reports that markets across Rhode Island continue to be...
Internet to bring health care to R.I.
You've been able to buy cars, toys, airline tickets and groceries over the Internet.
Soon, Rhode Island consumers will be able to go online to...
‘Better to have competition, in medicine as in business’
Name: Blake Cady, M.D.
Age: 70
Position: Director of the Breast Health Center and Chief of Surgery at
Women & Infants Hospital; Professor of Surgery, Brown...
Business for women — opportunities abound …
Contracts for women business owners are out there if they know where to look --
and state and federal governments and private corporations are...
Nurses battle overtime at bargaining table
Nurses at Rhode Island Hospital have scored several points in negotiations under binding arbitration, but mandatory overtime remains the key bottleneck between union and...
Union shifts focus to nursing home care contracts
While labor officials at District 1199 of the New England Health Care Employees' Union expect a quiet year for employees at Women & Infants'...
Internet to bring health care to R.I.
You've been able to buy cars, toys, airline tickets and groceries over the Internet.
Soon, Rhode Island consumers will be able to go online to...
Mobile medical screening company offers low-cost testing
Avoid a stroke in just 10 minutes! Detect osteoporosis in just 60 seconds!
According to the folks at Life Line Screening in Cleveland, Ohio, these...
Ethics in business? Essential policy, experts say
Why should a company bother with an ethics policy? Principles such as honesty, fairness and basic human decency should all go without saying, right?
Wrong,...
For women and minorities it’s still a struggle
It may be the 21st century, but when it comes to the accounting profession, women and minorities are still either vastly under-represented or unable...