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CARE NEW ENGLAND Medical Group will host a day of health and wellness at its Primary Care and Specialty Services location in Pawtucket on April 28.

Care New England to host health and wellness day in Pawtucket...

PAWTUCKET – Care New England Medical Group will host a day of health and wellness at its Primary Care and Specialty Services location at...
THE PBN SPRING HEALTH CARE Summit addressed a multitude of problems, developments and strengths in the Rhode Island health care market.

PBN 2018 Spring Health Care Summit examines strategic, legislative hurdles to...

PROVIDENCE — Panelists at the 2018 Spring Providence Business News Health Care Summit at the Providence Marriott Friday morning agreed primary care physicians suffer...
CVS HEALTH has announced plans to improve early diagnosis of and in-home treatment of kidney failure, the latter of which is the subject of an upcoming clinical trial. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL NAGLE

CVS developing early intervention for kidney disease, new home dialysis machine

WOONSOCKET —  CVS Health Corp. plans to provide earlier intervention for people most at risk for kidney disease and will launch a clinical trial...
A REPORT BY THE Center for Health Information and Analysis shows Partners' Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital were each 38 percent more expensive than the average hospital in Massachusetts. /Courtesy CHIA

Report: Partners health care expensive in Mass.

PROVIDENCE  — Partners HealthCare of Massachusetts received the highest share of commercial payments and had the highest-priced hospitals in Massachusetts in 2016 while Partners' physician...
THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE of Health and Human Services awarded $1.5 million to URI to create programs to train health care professionals of the future. / COURTESY URI

R.I. awards $1.3 million to URI for health care workforce training

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Rhode Island’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services has awarded $1.3 million from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
THE NATIONAL LABOR Relations Board has filed a lawsuit demanding the full results of a survey that shows poorly maintained surgical devices at Fatima Hospital. / COURTESY FATIMA HOSPITAL

NLRB seeks survey on Fatima Hospital’s medical device maintenance

PROVIDENCE — The National Labor Relations Board is suing Prospect CharterCARE LLC, a joint venture between Prospect Medical Holdings and CharterCARE Health Partners, for...
THE CDC reports the current flu vaccine is more than 59 percent effective for children up to eight-years-old against the H3N2 flu virus, the most common strain this season. / COURTESY CDC

Vaccines still recommended as flu season wanes

PROVIDENCE — Flu vaccinations remain your best defense as Rhode Island’s reported influenza-like illnesses continue to wane. Flu-like illnesses comprised of 2.2 percent of all...
CVS HEALTH is donating more than $260,000 to hemophilia and bleeding disorder programs throughout the United States to mark blood disorders awareness month, nationally recognized each year in March. BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL NAGLE

CVS Health donates $260K to hemophilia, bleeding disorder programs

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. announced donations of more than $260,000 to local and national hemophilia and bleeding disorder programs across the country as bleeding...
DR. SUSAN WINDHAM-BANNISTER is the founding chief executive of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. / COURTESY MASSACHUSETTS LIFE SCIENCES CENTER

Five Questions With: Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister

Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister is the founding chief executive of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. During her tenure, the MLSC invested more than $700 million of...
DR. BRIAN OTT has been awarded the Milton Hamolsky Lifetime Achievement Award for his leadership in pursuit of an end to Alzheimer’s disease. / COURTESY LIFESPAN

American College of Physicians honors Ott with lifetime achievement award for...

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians has awarded Dr. Brian Ott, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory...
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