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Southcoast Health fires 2 St. Luke’s anesthesia techs after sexual harassment...

NEW BEDFORD – Southcoast Health System fired two male St. Luke's anesthesia technicians last year and reviewed its policies after a fellow, female, technician...

St. Joseph pension plan receiver names Roman Catholic Diocese, Prospect CharterCare...

PROVIDENCE – Stephen Del Sesto, court-appointed receiver for the collapsed St. Joseph Health Services pension plan, filed suits in R.I. Superior Court and U.S. District...

Raimondo to honor local municipal leaders for overdose prevention plans

WARWICK – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo will join the members of Rhode Island's Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick...

Brown Physicians senior leadership team wins W.W. Keen Award

PROVIDENCE – The Brown Medical Alumni Association named the senior leadership team of Brown Physicians Inc. recipients of the annual W.W. Keen Award during...

Five Questions With: Jeffrey Hill

Jeffrey Hill has severed as the R.I. Department of Health’s violence and injury prevention coordinator since October 2016. Previously, he was the youth suicide...

Brown heads child and adolescent psychiatry training at Bradley, Hasbro...

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Larry Brown has been appointed director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Warren Alpert Medical School of...

R.I. Department of Health grants $42K for state climate change projects

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health has awarded $42,680 in grants to 10 local groups to work on projects related to climate change...

Whitehouse tours CODAC center to view opioid epidemic impact

PROVIDENCE – While Rhode Island has made significant headway in addressing the opioid crisis, health officials throughout the state say more work is needed...
RHODE ISLAND is among top states with specialized concentrations in biotech according to BIO's 2018 industry report. Above, a map depicting biotech employment concentrations by state. /COURTESY BIO

Industry report: R.I. well-positioned for biotech growth

PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island fares well on concentrations of biotech jobs and per capita research spending in a 2018 biotechnology industry report commissioned by...
DISCOVERY: Life­span researchers Chathuraka T. Jayasuriya, left, and Qian Chen, both of Rhode Island Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, have discovered aberrant stem cells that may play a role in osteoarthritis. / PBN PHOTO/
MICHAEL SALERNO

Osteoarthritic stem cell discovery hints at disease’s first drug treatments

A May report by a team of researchers from Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University shows that a portion of unspecialized stem cells in...
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