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Fund to encourage doctors to choose primary care

When James Purcell, CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, visited his primary care physician he asked how the state’s largest...
HOME BASE: Home & Hospice Care’s new $16 million facility will allow the Providence nonprofit to expand services and reduce or 
eliminate waiting lists, its president says. /

Nonprofit hospice expands its care

The best place to die, the staff at Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island will tell you, is where you’re most at peace...
THE FDA has given the gren light for Covidien to sell its DuraSeal sealant for use in spinal surgery. The product has been sold for brain surgery since 2005. /

FDA gives OK to Covidien surgery sealant

MANSFIELD – Covidien plc said yesterday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of its tissue sealant product DuraSeal for use...
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CVS settles with FTC; sells $1.5B in bonds

WOONSOCKET – The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that CVS Caremark Corp. has agreed to pay $2.78 million to settle charges that the pharmacy...

Bristol Co. told to boil water due to E. coli

Update, Sept. 11: Bristol County lifts boil water advisory BRISTOL – The R.I. Department of Health is advising Bristol County Water Authority customers to boil...

Slater invests $250K in biotech startup

PROVIDENCE – The Slater Technology Fund announced today it has invested $250,000 in Sentient Bioscience, a biotechnology startup developing technology for embolization therapy and...
THE SOON-TO-BE-OPEN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT at Women & Infants Hospital features private rooms for 80 babies, while still allowing for close monitoring. /

Expanded NICU at W&I seen as model

Mary Kay Talbot has twice lived through the anguish of having a child in the neonatal intensive care unit. Her firstborn, Lucas, spent the...
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PBN announces 2009 Innovation Awards

(Updated, Sept. 11, 10:30 a.m.) PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News today announced the winners of the fourth annual Innovation Awards competition, sponsored by PBN in...

EMA Council to receive swine flu briefing

CRANSTON – The R.I. Emergency Management Advisory Council, which is headed by Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts, will get a special briefing on Tuesday,...
ON HAND for the official opening and "dental floss cutting" were, from left, Dr. Daniel Kane, dental director, Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena, Lt. Governor Elizabeth H. Roberts and John Fogarty, president and CEO of St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island. /

St. Joseph offering dental services in Johnston

St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island, which runs the largest pediatric dental program in the state, serving more than 20,000 patients a year...
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