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FBI: Man who killed Brown students, MIT professor targeted symbolic victims...

BOSTON (AP) – Federal investigators say they believe the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed a Massachusetts Institute...

Brown students injured in mass shooting say university failed to protect...

Three Brown University students injured during the December mass shooting in an academic building are suing the school for inadequate security and failing to act...

Providence mayoral race’s first forum brings Democratic party fault lines into...

Rhode Island’s capital of Providence often serves as shorthand for the state itself. A four-candidate forum for the city’s mayoral race held April 22...
TESTING BOUNDARIES: Brown University biology professor John Sedivy, director of Brown’s Center on the Biology of Aging, will help lead a research team running a clinical trial to see if the drug censavudine can slow the human aging process. 
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Brown researchers testing HIV drug for anti-aging traits

More than 90% of adults over 65 have at least one chronic condition and about 80% have two or more, according to the Centers...
PLAY AREA: State Rep. David J. Place, R-Burrillville, would like to create a “regulatory sandbox” for biotech firms in the state where a waiver of certain regulations could be approved for activities such as testing, but the proposal has faced pushback from some state agencies. Place stands outside the CCI building in Providence, where some life science firms are located. 
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Biotech ‘sandbox’ bill raises oversight concerns

With Rhode Island making a push for the state to become a burgeoning hub for life sciences and biotechnology firms by building lab space...

Brown labor union divesting $500K from Citizens over ICE prison financing

PROVIDENCE – A labor union at Brown University announced Thursday it plans to pull roughly $500,000 in deposits from Citizens Financial Group Inc., citing...

Care New England names Dr. Rachel E. Beard head of hepatobiliary and pancreas...

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Rachel E. Beard this month joined Care New England Health System as division chief of hepatobiliary and pancreas surgery. Beard, who specializes in...
FASTER ACTION: Dr. Ana Tuya Fulton, center, chief population health officer at Care New England Health System, says she’s thankful state leaders are working on longer-term solutions for its health care problems, but there needs to be some quick wins, too. Fulton is a panelist at Providence Business News’ Health Care Summit on April 2, along with state Sen. Pamela Lauria, a nurse practitioner, left, and Dr. Raj Hazarika, vice president and chief medical officer of commercial products at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England Inc. 
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Summit panelists: R.I. trying to chip away at the many health...

When primary care nurse practitioner and state Sen. Pamela Lauria, D-Bristol, sees patients with urgent symptoms, she finds that a potential medical emergency isn’t...
SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS: Joseph Trunzo, left, associate director of Bryant University’s School of Health and Behavioral Sciences, participates in a panel discussion at Providence Business News’ Health Care Summit at Providence Marriott Downtown on April 2. The panel talks about ways to deal with the state’s health care woes. Also on the panel are, from left, Dr. Christopher Ottiano, interim chief medical officer and medical director at Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island; Linda Hurley, CODAC Inc. CEO and president; and Meghan Grady, Meals on Wheels of RI Inc. executive director. 
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Health care panel: Team approach needed to make system fixes

It doesn’t take a clinical degree to diagnose why Rhode Island has difficulty retaining health care providers who completed their education in the Ocean...
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Alexander Chow

HEALTH CARE HEROES 2026 AWARDS Volunteer: Alexander “Alex” Chow, Rhode Island Hospital volunteer What led you to choose health care as your profession? The suicide...
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