Although there are effective treatments for gout, the most common form of inflammatory arthritis, a new Arthritis Care & Research study found that opioids are commonly prescribed to patients with gout who seek treatment at ...
Jul 3, 2019
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CVS Health is expanding same-day prescription deliveries nationwide in the latest push by drugstores to keep customers who don't want to wait and are doing more shopping online.
Apr 4, 2019
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At 23, Erin Keith didn't know if she wanted children, but she knew she wanted a choice.
Apr 23, 2018
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This summer, it was announced that Rhode Island became the first state to pass a law explicitly requiring coverage for fertility preservation prior to gonadotoxic medical therapy, treatment that could directly or indirectly ...
Nov 1, 2017
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Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a proposal that would allow students to take sunscreen into schools without a doctor's note.
May 10, 2017
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In 2011, with an urge to pursue a deeper education in health care, medical research assistant and phlebotomist Akosua Adu-Boahene moved to Rhode Island from Kentucky to earn a master's degree in public health at Brown University. ...
Jan 24, 2017
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In addition to pencils, books and computers, count a new tool this year at many schools around the country: the heroin-overdose antidote naloxone.
Sep 11, 2015
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A new study finds that effective new hepatitis C drugs are so expensive the state of Rhode Island would have to spend almost twice its entire prison health budget to treat all its chronically infected inmates. Even providing ...
Apr 9, 2015
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Dina Morrissey, M.D., M.P.H., research associate for The Injury Prevention Center at Hasbro Children's Hospital, recently led a study that found that while compliance with mandated provisions in youth sports concussion laws ...
Feb 19, 2015
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What happens when you are hospitalized, but your outpatient doctor does not know? Or when you arrive at the office for follow-up care, but your doctor does not have the right information about your hospital stay? Missing ...
Sep 2, 2014
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