Tag: Health Matters
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...
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...
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...
Robot-assisted surgeon performs a first in R.I.
With the precision of slender robotic tools, Dr. Subhashini Ayloo can look inside someone’s abdomen with three-dimensional accuracy.
A small incision can be all she...
At Miriam, joint replacement is becoming less of a pain
Thirty years ago, when Dr. John Froehlich was an orthopedic surgical resident, the average stay for patients coming into hospitals for replacement of knees...
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