Karen Gavin
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...
Explosive growth of minorities altering market for businesses
According to a new U.S. Census report, as the country's population grows 50 percent to 394 million people in 2050, minorities will compose nearly...
Late flu season supports R.I.’s vaccine gamble
An ordinary flu season it's not.
Because of delays in getting vaccines and amid worries of high-risk patients becoming seriously ill, the state Department of...
Vaccine makers down by one as production problems rise
While production problems for this year's flu vaccine have meant delayed availability for health care providers and patients, for one major manufacturer the problems...
Pay phones hold out despite wireless pressure
With the rapid proliferation and advancement of wireless technology -- now scientists say cell phones don't cause cancer -- many experts assert that good,...
Fiscal woes, labor strife mark year in health care
The news last month that Rhode Island hospitals would get another $15 million in Medicare reimbursement from new amendments to the 1997 Balanced Budget...
Energy market volatile, prices on the rise
Extreme market volatility and skyrocketing prices were the dominant energy themes in 2000, prompting business owners to tighten their belts and question again the...
This Santa Claus remains loyal to Lincoln Mall
The pay's pretty good, $15 an hour according to one fledgling St. Nick -- that is, if you've grown your own beard.
But ask another...
Hospice, VNA to drop out of formal alliance with Lifespan
Lifespan, the state's largest health care system, will drop its visiting nurse and hospice care partners as part of a restructuring effort to focus...
Cancer centers could return<br>Rhode Island, Roger Williams and Miriam eye national...
After six years without a nationally recognized cancer center in Rhode Island, the independent Roger Williams Hospital and Lifespan's Miriam and Rhode Island hospitals...
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