Tag: Johns Hopkins University
Rise of concierge healthcare has raised concerns
As a nurse practitioner at Brown University Health’s East Greenwich office, Pamela Lauria has met with new patients who tell her that she’s their...
$2B buyoff to cancel offshore wind is bad deal
The U.S. is in a bizarre situation in 2026: It’s facing a looming energy shortage, yet the Trump administration is making deals to pay...
Brown University Health researchers identify new target for glioblastoma treatment
PROVIDENCE – Glioblastoma, one of the most common and aggressive forms of adult brain cancer, has long been considered particularly difficult to treat due to...
Providence schools could return to city control next year, if conditions...
PROVIDENCE – While state elected and education leaders feel there’s more work to do, the Providence Public School District could be returned to local...
An independent review of Providence schools is coming. Will state intervention...
PROVIDENCE – After being under state intervention for the last five years, is the Providence Public School District ready to be handed back over...
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...
Clinical trial on plasma makes headway in R.I.
Rhode Island Hospital is one of 30 medical facilities nationwide testing whether a plasma-based treatment for COVID-19 that has been approved for emergency use...
Coverage safety net has plenty of holes
COVID-19 can do more than torment patients physically. It also clobbers some financially.
Even though many insurers and the U.S. government have offered to pick...
R.I. added to N.Y., N.J. and Conn. travel advisory lists
PROVIDENCE – After nearly a month of Rhode Island being removed from a New York-Connecticut-New Jersey travel advisory list, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced...
Rhode Island Hospital part of national trial weighing benefits of COVID-19...
PROVIDENCE – A clinical trial aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of treating COVID-19 patients with antibodies from others who have had or been exposed...
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