Karen Gavin
First Night pays off all year long
For cities that host First Night celebrations, New Year's Eve has become a gift organizers say keeps right on giving.
According to a pre-millennium hype...
Chemo calls for cautionary software
Far from the front lines of emergency or operating room medicine exists the pristine quarters of Rhode Island Hospital's IV Services Preparation Area, where...
MedTeams plan tries to slash hospital errors
Their team status is denoted by color - the "Blues" and the "Golds" -- but unlike your basic athletic line-ups these Miriam Hospital Emergency...
Anti-tobacco activists urged to focus on the product
His audience was clear -- Rhode Island's top tobacco control activists, in a conference sponsored last month by the Rhode Island Department of Health.
But...
Medical mistakes finally in focus for prevention
Medical mistakes in the still-predominantly human world of health care are still the only sure thing.
According to a September 1999 report in the Annals...
Return to sender: online postage
After months of sluggish sales that didn't "push the envelope," online postage took its biggest dive last week when Net postage pioneer E-Stamp bailed...
A plea for energy conservation, savings
The winter holiday season of lights is a fitting time, according to Narragansett Electric officials, to remind customers of Demand Side Management programs that...
Linking business and education to make a difference
Name: Valerie Forti
Age: 45
Position: Executive Director, Business Education Roundtable, a nonprofit
organization made up of the state's top CEOs, devoted to improving the...
EPA offers new index of environmental awareness
Energy efficiency is good for the environment and with costs higher and more volatile than ever, it also saves businesses money -- still, these...
Close, small-town atmosphere in R.I. attracts Boston transfers
Andy Hodgkin, a partner at the international law firm Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer, has an analogy to describe the difference between working in...
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