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Blue Cross, Rhode Island PBS expand opioid education to middle, high...

PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Rhode Island PBS Education Services are extending their opioid use prevention partnership into...

Five Questions With: Samir Mistry

Samir Mistry, named chief pharmacy officer at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island in December, has worked in managed care for two...

Benchmark’s One Company Fund supports nursing assistant after car accident

WARWICK – On Oct. 27, Danielle Cardin, a certified nursing assistant at Greenwich Farm memory care unit who suffered a shattered pelvis and hip...

Hasbro Children’s Hospital names Lulla chief of pediatric hematology and oncology

PROVIDENCE – Hasbro Children’s Hospital has named Dr. Rishi Lulla as its new chief of pediatric hematology and oncology. Lulla comes to the Lifespan Corp....

Dennery named president of Society for Redox Biology and Medicine

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Phyllis A. Dennery, pediatrician-in-chief at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, has been named the new president of the Society for Redox Biology and...

BCBS names 11 local hospitals as Blue Distinction Centers

PROVIDENCE — The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has named 11 local hospitals as Blue Distinction Centers for five areas of specialty care as...
RECORD TIME: Brown University researchers have published a study showing that electronic health records are more stressful for physicians than they are helpful. At Coastal Medical, practice nurses, such as Margaret Hatzpanian, right, now handle most clinical documents and administrative tasks previously handled by doctors. At left is Stephanie Nunes, nurse practioner.
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Brown researcher: Electronic health records create high stress for physicians

Physicians say electronic health records are stressful, but a survey of Rhode Island doctors and promising strategies suggest compromises between round-the-clock accessibility and reasonable...

Del Sesto negotiating to avoid suit curbing St. Joseph settlement

PROVIDENCE – Stephen Del Sesto, court-appointed receiver for the collapsed $85 million St. Joseph Health Services pension plan, has until Feb. 1 to dissuade...
THE GEORGE & ANNE Ryan Institute for Neuroscience researchers will investigate reduction of brain blood vessel inflammation in fighting Alzheimer’s disease as part of the $1.3 million, University of Rhode Island-sponsored, BEACON study. Above, Paula Grammas, executive director of the Ryan Institute. / COURTESY NORA LEWIS

URI-sponsored BEACON study seeks blood vessel inflammation, Alzheimer’s link

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience researchers will investigate reduction of brain blood vessel inflammation in fighting Alzheimer’s disease as...
MEDMATES HAS REBRANDED as RI Bio and is selling memberships with new services made available through their affiliation with the international trade group Biotechnology Innovation Organization.

MedMates rebrands as RI Bio, introduces membership fees

PROVIDENCE — Local life sciences industry network group MedMates has rebranded as RI Bio, is now the Rhode Island affiliate of Biotechnology Innovation Organization,...
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