Marion Davis
Mental Health Assoc. seeks champions
PAWTUCKET – The Mental Health Association of Rhode Island is seeking nominees within the business community for its annual Bell Award, which each year...
Five Questions With: Dr. Alice Coombs
For the fifth consecutive year, the Massachusetts Medical Society’s annual Physician Workforce Study has found shortages in primary care, with roughly half of practices...
Breast cancer survivors sought to help current patients be more physically...
PROVIDENCE – Researchers at The Miriam Hospital are recruiting breast cancer survivors for a study with the American Cancer Society geared to encouraging women...
Memorial offers advanced endoscopy services, looking to cut hospital stays
PAWTUCKET – Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island is now offering advanced therapeutic endoscopy services to diagnose and treat cancer, and other conditions of the...
RIH: H1N1 differs from other viruses
PROVIDENCE – Two Rhode Island Hospital physicians have identified key ways in which the H1N1 (“swine flu”) virus differs from other viruses that cause...
Federal health reform funds creation of R.I. health insurance help line
PROVIDENCE – The state has been awarded $149,880 to develop a help line that consumers can call when they have questions about health insurance;...
Brown awarded $7.5M for study about interaction of alcohol and HIV
PROVIDENCE – A Brown University team has been awarded $7.5 million to study a question that scientists are only beginning to answer: why alcohol...
Care New England and UnitedHealthcare reach impasse in negotiations
PROVIDENCE - Contract negotiations between Care New England and UnitedHealthcare of New England have reached an impasse, threatening to disrupt medical and mental-health care...
Grants support R.I. long-term care counseling
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Elderly Affairs has been awarded $379,000 in grants under the federal health care reform law to help connect...
Study links waist size, U.S. diabetes rates
ARLINGTON, Va. – Americans’ larger waist size, not conventional risk factors such as obesity, appears to best explain why the United States has higher...
