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Affordable Care Act reform hopes renewed after GOP repeal abandoned
PROVIDENCE – Local hopes for bipartisan health insurance market-stabilizing legislation were rekindled Sep. 25 when Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, opposed the latest Affordable Care...
Five Questions With: Paula Most
The Healing Arts Program at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital has been helping to ease the experience of hospital and emergency room...
R.I. leads antibiotic prescription decline in national effort curbing microbial resistance
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s leading in the effort to curb unnecessary use of antibiotics, decreasing outpatient-filled prescriptions by 15 percent between 2010 and 2016,...
Superior Court judge blocks Smithfield’s medical marijuana ordinance
PROVIDENCE — R.I. Superior Court Associate Justice Richard A. Licht has granted two Smithfield residents, members of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, a...
Butler Hospital Foundation’s annual fundraiser collects $88,000
PROVIDENCE – Butler Hospital Foundation’s fundraiser, A Gallery Affair II, raised more than $88,000 to benefit research at the Providence Art Club Sept. 19.
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Noyce, Keefe lead honorees in PBN’s 2017 Business Excellence Awards
PROVIDENCE — Kurt Noyce, president of Embrace Home Loans, recently named the fastest-growing private company with revenue greater than $75 million by Providence Business...
EpiVax launches EpiVax Oncology for personalized cancer vaccines
PROVIDENCE — Immunolgy engineering biotech firm EpiVax Inc. has launched EpiVax Oncology Inc., a venture-backed spinoff focused on the development of personalized therapeutic cancer...
Carley to head Weekday Walk-In mental health counseling program
MIDDLETOWN – Newport County Community Mental Health Center Inc. has named Farrell Carley the first coordinator of its Weekday Walk-In mental health counseling program...
Five Questions With: Dr. Maureen Phipps
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released new draft recommendations for cervical cancer screening that would allow women 30-65 to use a Pap...
Storms newest pediatrician to join Thundermist Health Center
WEST WARWICK – Dr. Angelica Storms has joined Thundermist Health Center in West Warwick as the facility’s newest pediatrician.
Storms attended Universidad Panamericana Medical School...
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