More clinicians hitting streets with Providence’s first responders
Most mornings, 28-year-old Rachel Armada accompanies a Providence police officer during a shift, riding along in a cruiser as they answer calls. She’s at...
Lab partnership could boost Lifespan’s research stature
Rhode Island’s largest hospital system is hoping that teaming up with a biotech company could help achieve a breakthrough in developing treatment options for...
Pleas to fix R.I.’s ‘broken’ behavioral health system
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, treatment providers, advocates and lawmakers are calling for Rhode Island to confront its problems with access to...
Communities create ‘Safe Stations’ in effort to reduce overdose deaths
Rhode Islanders who are struggling with substance abuse now have places they can go to get immediate attention and support, after fire departments and...
Weight loss surgery with the help of a robot
More precision and smaller incisions.
These are the main benefits that modern robot-assisted surgery brings to bariatric surgery, a procedure that helps with weight loss...
Kent offers state’s first ‘hospital-at-home’ acute care program
Call it home sweet hospital.
Kent County Memorial Hospital in Warwick recently received a waiver from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and...
Demand for dental care program growing, but funding isn’t
For more than 13 years, CareLink Inc. has traversed Rhode Island with a mobile dentistry practice, serving elderly, low-income patients in nursing homes who...
Hospitals start bracing for a busy flu season
The shot clock is ticking.
Now is the time of year to get that flu vaccine for it to be most effective, according to an...
Is COVID ‘bias’ hindering Lyme disease detection?
Jane Barrows’ troubles with Lyme disease began with a strange mark on her thigh.
In 2008, she was doing some landscaping while wearing a bathing...
Initiative at Hasbro Children’s Hospital to examine racial biases in pediatrics
Pediatric health care isn’t immune from racial inequities.
That’s the starting point for a new grant-funded program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence and 11...
