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DR. MICHAEL BARRETTI performs bronchial thermoplasty at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford. During the procedure, a bronchoscope is inserted through the nose or mouth to heat and reduce the smooth muscle of the airways in the lungs, minimizing airway constriction that can result in an asthma attack. / COURTESY SOUTHCOAST HEALTH

St. Luke’s bronchial thermoplasty lung treatment reduces severe asthma attacks

NEW BEDFORD – St. Luke’s Hospital now offers bronchial thermoplasty, the first nondrug treatment option for adults with severe asthma, proven to reduce severe...
DR. PETER DEBLASIO JR., an ophthalmologist at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence, received the 2017 Distinguished Service Award at the annual CharterCARE Health Partners’ Medical Staff physician reception on Dec. 11. Pictured from left at the event: John Holiver, CEO, CharterCARE Health Partners; Dr. Joseph Mazza, medical staff president, Fatima Hospital; DeBlasio; and David Kobis, president, Fatima Hospital. / COURTESY CHARTERCARE HEALTH PARTNERS

DeBlasio accepts 2017 Distinguished Service Award

NORTH PROVIDENCE – Dr. Peter DeBlasio Jr., an ophthalmologist who has been on staff at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital for more than 35...
MICHAEL MULLER, clinical pharmacist specialist in neonatology at Women & Infants Hospital, was named Health System Pharmacist of the Year at the 49th Annual Installation Banquet of the Rhode Island Society of Health System Pharmacists at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick on Jan. 6. / COURTESY WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL

Muller named pharmacist of the year at RISHP banquet

WARWICK – Michael Muller, clinical pharmacist specialist in neonatology at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, was named Health System Pharmacist of the Year...
ACCORDING TO A PRELIMINARY prospectus, the value of the CVS Health purchase of Aetna is $69.7 billion. But the market value of Aetna as of the close of the markets Friday was $6.7 billion short of that figure. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER LEE

Market skeptical of CVS-Aetna merger valuation

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp.’s preliminary prospectus for shareholders filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday afternoon values its merger with Aetna Inc....
CARE NEW ENGLAND and Partners HealthCare announced today the companies plan a definitive agreement, with an open-ended, exclusive letter of intent to merge.

CNE, Partners plan definitive merger agreement

PROVIDENCE — Care New England Health System and Partners HealthCare of Massachusetts have agreed to enter into a definitive agreement to merge, the next...
FOUR LOCAL HOSPITALS have been named Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence by Healthgrades Operating Co. Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, both in Providence, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River received the distinction. / COURTESY HEALTHGRADES

4 local hospitals named ‘Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence’

PROVIDENCE – Four local hospitals, two each at Southcoast Health and Lifespan Corp., have been named “Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence” by Healthgrades Operating...

Congressional spending bill extends CHIP, RIte Care funding 6 years

PROVIDENCE— Congress’s spending bill that extended federal services through Feb. 8 on Monday also funded the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, for six...
BROWN UNIVERSITY'S vision for Rhode Island health care would put Women and Infants and Butler under Lifespan's management. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Brown University vision for R.I. health care would gather specialty hospitals...

PROVIDENCE — Brown University’s vision of health care in Rhode Island would concentrate all the state’s specialty hospitals under Lifespan Corp.’s management after their...
THE SEC HAS RULED that AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp. must allow shareholders to propose disclosing executive pay clawbacks related to opioid distribution misconduct. /BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/DHIRAJ SINGH

SEC: Drug distributor must allow shareholder vote on opioid-related clawback disclosure

PROVIDENCE— State Treasurer Seth Magaziner and national coalition Investors for Opioid Transparency have won an U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruling that AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp....
MULTIPLE RHODE ISLAND communities are suing opioid manufacturers and distributors as public nuisances. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/KIYOSHI OTA

R.I. communities sue opioid manufacturers, distributors as public nuisances

PROVIDENCE — Fourteen Rhode Island communities led by Lt. Gov. Dan McKee are filing a public nuisance lawsuit against five of the largest pharmaceutical...
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