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NEW WHEELS: Salve Regina University has launched a new health and mobile outreach program that includes a 40-foot vehicle staffed by nursing students and professors, who will be making the rounds to local organizations for health education.  COURTESY SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY

Salve nursing students take detour from classroom

Health Matters 10/24/2025

After several semesters of delivering presentations and listening to them in a humdrum classroom, Salve Regina University senior Taylor Barnaby is hitting the road. And...

HELP WANTED: Dr. Steven Brown, an oral surgeon and president at University Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in East Greenwich, says the state needs more surgical centers providing pediatric dental surgery. Brown is also the chief of dentistry and oral and maxillofacial surgery at Rhode Island Hospital and a clinical assistant professor at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School.  PBN PHOTO/ ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Filling a desperate need in pediatric dentistry in R.I.

Health Matters 09/26/2025

The calls from anxious parents come into the Samuels Sinclair Dental Center all the time, and the story is often the same. Their child needs...

GETTING TESTED: A member of the medical staff conducts an examination on a patient at Planned Parenthood of Southern New England’s Providence Health Center recently. Officials and patients are concerned that Medicaid funding changes could alter access to routine health care services.  COURTESY PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND/ALLISON TULK PHOTOGRAPHY

Fight over Medicaid alarms OB-GYN patients

Health Matters 08/15/2025

Planned Parenthood patients are worried. Many patients in Rhode Island and elsewhere who rely on the nonprofit for OB-GYN services could lose that assistance under...

GOING ON FOOT: Sonia Rodriguez, holding the green umbrella, of Smithfield leads the “Walk with a Doc” at South Main Street in Providence in June. Although there was no doctor on this particular walk and it was threatening to rain, the participants forged ahead because the health-related program has also become a social exercise.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Questions for a doctor? These walkers gladly trek 2 miles to...

Health Matters 07/18/2025

Jay Mendes had become very familiar with the waiting room at The Miriam Hospital’s Men’s Health Center in Providence after going to countless appointments...

RELAXED ATMOSPHERE: Paul Byrne, the general manager of Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, inside the sensory room at the stadium, available for attendees who feel overwhelmed by the noises and large crowds. The stadium is one of only three sports venues in New England with such a feature.  PBN PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

Stadium has special place for sensory-sensitive fans

Health Matters 06/20/2025

Amid the cheering, chants, drumming and pyrotechnics during a Rhode Island FC soccer match, a small room located on Centreville Bank Stadium’s south end...

A CLOSE LOOK: Carolina Carrillo, a Warren Alpert Medical School student, conducts a health examination of a Calcutt Middle School student at the SMART Plus clinic at Calcutt in Central Falls. Medical students also serve as mentors for middle schoolers interested in the field of health care.  COURTESY WARREN ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL

At this school clinic, students get checkups, then career mentoring

Health Matters 05/23/2025

As Rhode Island continues to face a shortage of health care workers, a first-of-its-kind program using students from Brown University’s medical school is attempting...

HEAVY METAL: Gregory Mercurio, senior vice president of radiation oncology for American Shared Hospital Services and CEO of Precision Radiation Oncology of Rhode Island, stands in front of a cyclotron, which generates particles that create the protons used in proton beam radiation therapy for cancer patients. The cyclotron must be surrounded by a vault, which together weigh 230,000 pounds. COURTESY GREGORY MERCURIO

Proton radiation therapy center expects to boost cancer care in Rhode...

Health Matters 04/25/2025

Dr. David Wazer has sent hundreds of cancer patients to Boston because the treatment they needed didn’t exist in Rhode Island. Brown University Health, where...

HOUSE CALL: Dr. Tyler Weisberger, left, who works for Kent County Memorial Hospital’s Hospital at Home program, examines Doris Witt at her Warwick home. Witt was admitted to Kent in early March after experiencing symptoms from her congestive heart failure. The Hospital at Home program allowed her to be discharged early but still receive hospital-level care.  COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM

Hospitals see benefits to bringing care home

Health Matters 03/28/2025

When 90-year-old Doris Witt was taken to the hospital a few weeks ago because she was having trouble breathing, the elderly Warwick resident wasn’t...

PRE-OP PREP: Dr. Clark Chen, left, director of the brain tumor program at Rhode Island Hospital, and Dr. Joshua Feler, a medical resident, prepare the GammaTile implants – the small white squares – for a recent procedure.  COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH

Tiny brain implants aim potent radiation at tumors

Health Matters 02/28/2025

When Arnaldo Dacruz was diagnosed with brain cancer, he and his wife, Dorothy, were blindsided. Now they have hope with the help of a treatment...

NEW OPTION: Kent Hospital surgical team members assist Dr. Brian Temple, second from left in the background, as he performs a DIEP flap procedure as part of breast reconstruction surgery for a mastectomy patient. COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM

Complex breast reconstruction procedure requires microsurgeon with ‘extreme’ talent

Health Matters 01/17/2025

Patients who will undergo mastectomies as part of breast cancer treatment now have a new option for natural breast reconstruction in Rhode Island. Care New...

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