Tag: Health Matters
High-tech exoskeleton lending a hand, arms and legs
Early last December, Chuck Allen was enjoying a lazy afternoon at home in North Kingstown. His wife, Becky, had run out for a few...
Amid housing shortage, access to care wavers
Sitting next to a campfire in a homeless encampment in a wooded area in Providence, emergency room physician Dr. Rebecca Karb found herself looking...
PC poised to feed R.I.’s health worker pipeline
Rhode Island is about to get a new source of nurses and other health care professionals.
Plans for Providence College’s new School of Nursing and...
Bridging gaps to help patients get proper care
Dr. Pablo Rodriguez has been trying to bridge gaps in health care his whole life.
Born in Puerto Rico, he came to the United States...
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...
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