Mike Colias
Hospitals get $22M for research
Two Providence teaching hospitals last week were awarded a combined $22 million in separate federal research grants.
Roger Williams Medical Center will...
Job training efforts disjointed, some say
Fractured. Scattered. Bottlenecked.
That is the condition of Rhode Island’s work force development system, according
to a number of state business...
The business of the arts
Innovation, creativity seen as ways to open new markets
Peter Bramante
Age: 42
Position: Executive Director, Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island
Background: Prior to becoming...
R.I. firm furthers human egg technology
A North Kingstown company’s efforts to make money by freezing unfertilized human eggs have, it seems, come a step closer to bearing fruit.
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Blue Cross ties healthy living to lower rates
Insurer may roll out first-known plan that would cut premiums by urging customers to get in shape.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode...
Coventry environmental center promotes sustainability
At the Apeiron Institute for Environmental Living in Coventry, visitors are bombarded with one simple mantra: how to use less stuff in their...
Ethics in the ICU
Study focuses on costs vs. patient care
Instead of using a new sedative for patients in the intensive care unit, a physician sticks with an...
KNOW PARKING
Experts to study city’s parking woes this week
If you see a sharp-dressed man jotting down notes as he ogles your downtown
...
RIte Share membership up sharply
A state program aimed at moving Medicaid recipients off the state’s dime and onto employer-sponsored health plans has been expanding sharply, recent enrollment figures...
The cubicle’s evolution
Trends in workstations aim for efficient offices
Cubicles – or workstations, as office-furniture designers call them – always
have morphed right along...
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