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ABOUT FIVE MILLION older Americans are financially exploited every year by scammers / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/CHRIS RATCLIFFE

How criminals steal $37B a year from America’s elderly

NEW YORK - Marjorie Jones trusted the man who called to tell her she’d won a sweepstakes prize, saying she could collect the winnings...
ARTHUR TAYLOR, director of nursing at the Comprehensive Community Action Program in Cranston, has been named the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Childhood Immunization Champion for Rhode Island. / COURTESY CCAP

Taylor named R.I. CDC Child Immunization Champion

CRANSTON – Arthur Taylor, a registered nurse and director of nursing for the Comprehensive Community Action Program, has been awarded the Centers for Disease Control...
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE Control and Prevention has notified travelers that vaccinations against yellow fever are required before entering 135 countries. / COURTESY CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Yellow fever outbreak prompts vaccine requirements for entry to 135 countries

EAST PROVIDENCE – A large, ongoing outbreak of yellow fever that recently reached level 2 alert status in multiple states in Brazil has prompted...
CVS HEALTH has announced plans to improve early diagnosis of and in-home treatment of kidney failure, the latter of which is the subject of an upcoming clinical trial. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL NAGLE

CVS developing early intervention for kidney disease, new home dialysis machine

WOONSOCKET —  CVS Health Corp. plans to provide earlier intervention for people most at risk for kidney disease and will launch a clinical trial...
CAREGIVERS FOR PEOPLE with dementia tend to provide more time-intensive and extensive assistance than caregivers of individuals without dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. / COURTESY ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION

Report: Medicaid cost of Alzheimer’s reaches $438M in Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE – By 2050, the total cost of care for the 5.7 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease, 23,000 of them Rhode Island residents,...
PRO-CHANGE BEHAVIOR SYSTEMS has won a grant from the Lupus Foundation of America to help develop an online self-management program for people recently diagnosed with lupus.

Pro-Change to develop online self-management tool for lupus patients

PROVIDENCE – Pro-Change Behavior Systems Inc. has won a grant from the Lupus Foundation of America to help develop an online self-management program for...
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE Control and Prevention recommends the shingles vaccine Shingrix, now available at all CVS Pharmacy locations, for adults 50 years and older. / COURTESY CDC

CVS offers new shingles vaccine at all pharmacy locations

WOONSOCKET – About 99 percent of people 50 and older are at risk for shingles, a painful rash also known as herpes zoster, and...
FROM LEFT, William T. Chen, physician at University Gastroenterology; Dr. Thomas Sepe, president of University Gastroenterology; Ed Cooley, men’s basketball head coach for Providence College; and Eric Newton, physician at University Gastroenterology and a clinical associate professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, are encouraging people to get screened for colon cancer. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY GASTROENTEROLOGY

Cooley teams with local health groups to encourage colorectal screening

PROVIDENCE – Providence College Men’s Basketball Head Coach Ed Cooley is teaming up with University Gastroenterology and University Endoscopy Group to urge people 50...

CDC: Flu Vaccine 59 percent effective for kids against most common...

PROVIDENCE — This year’s flu vaccine is 25 percent effective for all ages and more than 59 percent effective for children up to eight-years-old...
THE NUMBER OF outpatient positive influenza tests for the 2017-18 flu season far outweighs inpatient positive tests across all age groups except for those 65 and older. / COURTESY RIDOH

R.I. weathers intense flu season short Memorial Hospital’s emergency room

PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island hospitals are handling increased emergency calls during a flu season the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls “intense,” rivaling...
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