Tag: Health Matters
Faster tumor diagnosis with robotic assistance
Dr. Andrew Foderaro has performed countless bronchoscopies over his career, but even he can find it tricky.
The procedure requires a doctor to maneuver a...
NEMIC programs helping draw global startups to Providence, break into U.S....
John Cho was not very familiar with Providence a few months ago. As a South Korean entrepreneur in the health care sector, he never...
Are electronic health records burning out doctors?
Dr. Oliver Mayorga recalls one time attending to a patient in the Westerly Hospital emergency room who was suffering from cancer.
The patient, a Rhode...
In many ways, these tattoos restore what’s lost to breast cancer
For the first year after her double mastectomy, all Debra Turilli could think about was how happy she was to be alive.
She had been...
Opening a Pathway: Slate of programs exposing young people of color...
In medical school, Emmanuel Asiedu was one of the very few students of color in a sea of white students. That did not change...
AI put to the test during cardiac procedures in R.I.
A new artificial intelligence technology is helping physicians perform ablations – minimally invasive surgeries used to treat certain heart conditions – more efficiently, and...
Pediatrics pain point may be soothed by design solution
When Dr. Ravi D’Cruz asked his former mentor Dr. Brian Alverson if he could think of any problems in health care that could be...
R.I. escalates efforts to contain monkeypox
Treating a cough or sore throat used to be a lot simpler. But since the COVID-19 outbreak more than two years ago, common symptoms...
A $28M plan to make Women & Infants delivery rooms ‘homelike’
The delivery rooms at Women & Infants Hospital have been feeling a little cramped in recent years.
Expectant mothers ready to give birth often find...
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...
