Business Plan announces winners
PROVIDENCE – A company that is working on preventing medical device-related infections and a team of Brown University students developing an energy drink were...
Former RIH chief joins Isis Biopolymer
WARWICK – Former Rhode Island Hospital president and CEO Dr. Joseph Amaral has joined the board of directors of the medical device company Isis...
Longs costs, lower sales hurt CVS profit
WOONSOCKET – CVS Caremark Corp. today said its profit fell slightly in the first three months of the year as consumers cut back on...
NABsys gets $4M to continue DNA work
PROVIDENCE — The life sciences firm NABsys Inc. today announced that it has raised $4 million from a group of investors led by Providence-based...
Funding, not ethnic origin, is key to poor nursing home care
To the editor:
Readers who were distressed by Marion Davis’ article, (“Study: Bedsore rate highest for Hispanics, blacks,” PBN.com, April 16) may take some consolation...
‘Colocation’ increases access to mental-health care
When Dr. Albert J. Puerini Jr. needs to refer a patient to a cardiologist, or an endocrinologist, he doesn’t have to give it much...
RWMC-St. Joseph merger on track
PROVIDENCE – Nearly three months after submitting a 24,000-page document to the R.I. Attorney General and Department of Health, Roger Williams Medical Center and...
R.I. long-term care costs rising fast, study finds
RICHMOND, Va. – The cost of long-term care in Rhode Island not only far exceeds the national average, but it’s also rising much faster,...
R.I. Senate OKs marijuana ‘compassion centers’
The R.I. Senate last week voted 35-2 to approve a bill that would allow the creation of “compassion centers” to give marijuana to patients...
Institute of Medicine calls for stronger <br>conflict-of-interest measures
WASHINGTON – The Institute of Medicine (IOM), which advises policymakers, health care professionals, the private sector and the public on a wide range...
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