Health, Consolidated
Lifespan and Care New England, the two biggest healthcare networks in RI, have signed an agreement stating their intent to merge. They’ve submitted a letter of intent and application to […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Whose Bodies? Every-Bodies!: Every-Bodies Fitness aims to make fitness accessible for LGBTQ+ youth
When Melissa DeLuca was in high school in the 1980s, she was banned from the field hockey team because she was gay – an experience that now fuels her unique […]
Health Innovation Policy for the People: Undercutting profit motive for better outcomes
For at least the last 25 years, Rhode Island has relied on the medical-industrial complex to serve as an economic engine. The quest for patentable, scalable cures for the diseases […]
Embrace the Offensive: PVD’s Tara Morris finds catharsis through hot power yoga
On a cold December morning, Tara Morris opened her hot power yoga class with the words, “Today’s my mom’s birthday; she would’ve been 81.” Morris’ mother Maryann passed away in […]
FDA shortens wait for COVID-19 vaccine booster to 5 months, expands eligibility down to age 12
Major changes were authorized this morning to increase access to booster shots for the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There are three main […]
RI app shows verifiable vaccination status: Generates trusted secure QR code
(App download links at end of article.) RI has updated and renamed its “401Health” app (previously “Crush COVID RI”) for Google Android and Apple iOS, the office of Gov. Daniel […]
Monoclonal Antibodies (MABS) Delays: Effective COVID-19 treatment faces logistical obstacles
Treatment with monoclonal antibodies (MABS) is recommended and authorized to keep patients who test positive for COVID-19 out of the hospital, reducing the severity of mild to moderate symptoms. The […]
Omicron in RI: First patient identified
Omicron has been detected in RI, according to an announcement this afternoon from the office of Governor Daniel McKee. “The individual who tested positive is a person in their 20s […]
Omicron virus “variant of concern”: More transmissible, unknown if otherwise more dangerous
A new “variant of concern” (VOC) for the virus that causes COVID-19 has today been assigned Greek letter “Omicron” by the World Health Organization (WHO) at an emergency meeting of […]
Porn-Induced Impotence
Having Porn-Induced Impotence is not just awkward for the person that has it, however, for their partner as well. When an individual has this problem, they will certainly discover that […]