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Roger Williams seeks transplant collaboration
One year after losing its bone marrow transplantation chief and two other key specialists to Rhode Island Hospital, Roger Williams Medical Center has hired...
Poll shows health care reform is desired by voters
A newly released poll commissioned by Ocean State Action, an advocacy group with a special interest in health care, shows a strong sense among...
Brown research validates data authenticity
The technology, known as the “secure transaction management system” (STMS), was developed by Roberto Tamassia, director of Brown University’s Center for Geometric Computing, and...
Hospitals on losing path
As it turned out, Kent Hospital’s operating loss was almost perfectly offset by Women & Infants Hospital’s profit: The latter finished fiscal 2007 with...
When life doesn’t end as expected
Melinda Lemos-Jackson sought hospice care for her mother soon after her Parkinson’s disease was deemed to have reached its end stage last January.
Medicare...
R.I. Hospital researcher to receive $19.6M grant
A kidney specialist at Rhode Island Hospital has been awarded a $19.6 million federal grant to fund another five years of research into ways...
R.I. Hospital researcher receives $19.6M grant
PROVIDENCE – A kidney specialist at Rhode Island Hospital has been awarded a $19.6 million federal grant to fund another five years of research...
State leaders challenged to take on health reforms
The numbers, everyone knows, do not look good: From 2000 to 2005, the share of Rhode Islanders under 65 who were uninsured grew from...
Prescription drug co-pays on the rise, study finds
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – An analysis of prescription drug co-payments over the last three years shows that consumers in New England are paying more...
Brown medical school dean to step down
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Eli Y. Adashi, who has led Brown University’s medical school through a period of extensive growth, plans to step down at...
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