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FIGHTING PARKINSON’S: Rich Gingras, center, a retired New England boxing champion, opened The Parkinson’s Place gym in Pawtucket to help Parkinson’s patients mitigate the effects of the disease through fitness. He works with Stuart Marshal, left, of Bristol, and Chuck Eckhardt of North Attleborough. /  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Boxing therapy an effective treatment for Parkinson’s patients

Health Services 03/16/2018

There's no cure for the progressive, neurodegenerative Parkinson’s disease, but physical training is an effective treatment, as Rich Gingras, founder of The Parkinson’s Place...

Top Doctors List names 279 local physicians to ranks for 2017-18

Health Services 03/13/2018

PROVIDENCE – About 279 physicians in Rhode Island and Bristol County, Mass., have been named by their peers to the Top Doctors List for...

MICHAEL MULLER, clinical pharmacist specialist in neonatology at Women & Infants Hospital, was named Health System Pharmacist of the Year at the 49th Annual Installation Banquet of the Rhode Island Society of Health System Pharmacists at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick on Jan. 6. / COURTESY WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL

Muller named pharmacist of the year at RISHP banquet

Health Services 01/29/2018

WARWICK – Michael Muller, clinical pharmacist specialist in neonatology at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, was named Health System Pharmacist of the Year...

FURTHER STUDY: Dr. Gregory D. Jay, owner of Lubris LLC, has been investigating lubricin, a glycoprotein recently licensed to Novartis for use as a dry-eye treatment. Jay is looking into lubricin’s potential as a treatment for damaged joints and abdominal scarring prevention. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

R.I. hospitals’ dilemma: Nurture innovation or be downsized by it

Entrepreneurship 12/08/2017

Medical innovation saves and improves otherwise desperate lives and lends prestige to the hospitals nurturing it, while attracting new patients, funding, and top researchers...

CARE NEW ENGLAND is closing Memorial Hospital, with some services remaining long term. A second public-comment meeting will be held Dec. 4 to allow the community to voice concerns on the impact of the closure. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

RIDOH schedules public-comment meeting on Memorial Hospital closure

Health Services 12/04/2017

PAWTUCKET – The R.I. Department of Health tonight is hosting a second meeting to hear public comment on Care New England’s planned shuttering of...

A PUBLIC COMMENT hearing on Memorial Hospital's closing will be held Nov. 27 at 5 p.m. at Goff Middle School at 974 Newport Ave. in Pawtucket. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

RIDOH hosting public comment for Memorial Hospital closing

Health Services 11/24/2017

PAWTUCKET - Care New England's application to close Memorial Hospital is filed, and the R.I. Department of Health is holding a meeting Monday night at Lyman...

Five Questions With Sandy Coletta

In Their Own Words 11/03/2017

Sandy Coletta | Author, former president of Kent Hospital 1. Can you give our readers a summary of your book, “The Owl Approach to Storytelling”?...

MEMBERS OF UNITED NURSES and Allied Professionals Local 5008 picketed Kent Hospital on Toll Gate Road Sept. 12, calling for terms equal to other workers and job security assurances. They and the hospital agreed to those terms Oct. 22. / COURTESY KENT HOSPITAL

Kent Hospital, UNAP agree on equal terms for newly unionized workers,...

Health Services 10/25/2017

WARWICK - United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5008 and Kent Hospital reached a tentative agreement Sunday night, Oct. 22, on a first contract for...

UNAP members picket outside Kent Hospital, call for equal terms, job...

Health Services 09/18/2017

WARWICK - Members of United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5008 picketed outside Kent Hospital on Sept. 12, seeking equal terms between new and existing...