Providence VA Medical Center study finds telehealth may be effective treatment...
PROVIDENCE – A Providence VA Medical Center study has found that video telehealth visits may be an effective treatment for nonepileptic seizures.
Researchers measured the...
Five Questions With: Dr. Betty Vohr
Dr. Betty Vohr, a neonatologist at Women & Infants Hospital, has received the 2020 Virginia Apgar Award. The annual honor represents the highest level...
2 Women & Infants Hospital NICU nurses honored by Congressional Coalition...
PROVIDENCE – Two nurses in Women & Infants Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit have received national recognition for their involvement in adoption.
Kimberley Maynard and...
Thrive Behavioral Health honored for support of employees in recovery
WARWICK – Thrive Behavioral Health Inc.’s efforts to support its employees who are recovering from substance use disorder has led to a new designation...
Rhode Island Medical Imaging donates $10K to state cancer screening program
PROVIDENCE – A $10,000 donation from Rhode Island Medical Imaging to the R.I. Department of Health’s Women’s Cancer Screening Program is to go toward...
Are you satisfied with Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s ongoing response to...
Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and other elected officials received strong support from PBN readers back in March for the job they had done up...
Amid hospital mergers, some still going it alone
Our Lady of Fatima Hospital. Landmark Medical Center. Westerly Hospital. Memorial Hospital.
Over the last decade, mergers, acquisitions, affiliations and closures have consumed all but...
Bariatric surgery benefits both patients and hospitals
Bariatric surgery options are expanding in Rhode Island, but practitioners say that many more people could benefit from the weight-reduction procedures than actually seek...
Clinical trial on plasma makes headway in R.I.
Rhode Island Hospital is one of 30 medical facilities nationwide testing whether a plasma-based treatment for COVID-19 that has been approved for emergency use...
Coverage safety net has plenty of holes
COVID-19 can do more than torment patients physically. It also clobbers some financially.
Even though many insurers and the U.S. government have offered to pick...
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