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PHRED'S DRUGS will be acquired by CVS Pharmacy and then close Nov. 29, CVS has announced. / COURTESY PHRED'S DRUG

CVS to acquire, close, Phred’s Drug

WOONSOCKET — CVS Health Corp. will acquire Phred’s Drug at 1300 Oaklawn Ave. in Cranston, including pharmacy files, insurance and inventory, transferring the information...

University Orthopedics partners with The Center for Orthopaedics

EAST PROVIDENCE – University Orthopedics has entered a collaborative partnership with The Center for Orthopaedics in Johnston, effective Jan. 1, intended to improve patient...

Five Questions With: Dr. Carol A. Wheeler

Dr. Carol A. Wheeler, a reproductive endocrinologist at the Fertility Center at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, recently became the only Rhode Island...

Beltone New England opens new hearing aid center in Cranston

CRANSTON – Warwick-based Beltone New England celebrated the grand opening of its new hearing aid center at 478 Reservoir Ave. in Cranston on Nov....

CODAC aids $1.5M expansion, evaluation of RIDOC MAT program

CRANSTON – The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded Brown University researchers a three-year, $1.5 million grant to expand and evaluate...

Tufts Health Plan Foundation awards $100K in 10 grants to R.I....

PROVIDENCE – Ten Rhode Island organizations each will receive $10,000 grants from Tufts Health Plan Foundation’s new Momentum Fund. The fund was created to develop...
BETTER METHOD: Carl Saab, an associate professor of neuroscience and neurosurgery at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, and a team of Brown researchers have developed and patented a new way to diagnose and manage pain.
 / COURTESY LIFESPAN CORP.

Brown researchers find brain waves an accurate method for measuring pain

A team of Brown University researchers has developed and patented a new, objective measure of pain using a noninvasive electroencephalograph of theta-band brain waves,...
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF RHODE ISLAND and Oak Street Health will open three primary care health centers for Medicare patients in Rhode Island in 2019. Above, a view of an Oak Street Health center's front desk in Ashburn, Ill. / COURTESY TORI SOPER

BCBSRI, Chicago-based Oak Street Health plan 3 R.I. Medicare primary care...

PROVIDENCE — Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is partnering with Chicago-based Oak Street Health, a network of primary care centers serving...
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL has been named among the nation's top 50 cardiovascular hospitals by IBM Watson Health for the fifth time.

Report: Rhode Island Hospital among 50 top cardiovascular hospitals in...

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital has been named to IBM Watson Health’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals 2019 Winner List, the only one in Rhode Island and...

Family Service of Rhode Island, CODAC use $750K grant to aid...

PROVIDENCE – CODAC Behavioral Healthcare and Family Service of Rhode Island are using a $750,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Office for Victims of Crime to...
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