Physicians in Rhode Island sometimes find it difficult to advise patients about returning to driving after they present with a seizure or syncopal episode due to lack of statutory or professional guidance on the issue. We provide an overview of the medical literature on public policies and recommendations regarding driving after seizures or syncope. We also present the laws in Rhode Island rega...

The Brown University AIDS Program and the Rhode Island Department of Health joined with health care practitioners, researchers, and representatives of community-based health, social service, and advocacy organizations to create comprehensive guidelines on nonoccupational HIV postexposure prophylaxis for the state of Rhode Island. These guidelines offer health care practitioners detailed advice ...

VOLUME 92 NO.2 FEBRUARY 2009 Rhode Island has had the highest incidence of cancer in the country, but over the last decade the death rate from cancer has fallen to “average” for the United States. For the most part, this has been accomplished by the combined efforts of the medical and public health community to bring cancer awareness and health education, particularly cancer screening, to the s...

The number of emergency department (ED) visits in the United States reached 119.2 million visits in 2007. 1 The largest percentage of these visits was for people with injury-related diagnoses (42.4 million visits), with falls accounting for 76% of these among adults age 65 and older. 2 Hospital discharge data for injury-related admissions reflects those patients visiting the ED whose injuries w...

ProThera Biologics is a development stage bio-therapeutics company in East Providence, Rhode Island. The company was founded in 2002 to focus on the critical role and commercial potential of Inter-alpha Inhibitor Proteins (IAIP) for treating acute life-threatening inflammatory diseases. The discovery research originated in the basic research laboratories of the co-founders, Yow-Pin Lim, MD, PhD...

PI: Molly E. Cummings Integrative Biology Department University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 phone: (512) 232-6243 fax: (512) 471-3878 email: [email protected] Co-PI: Samir Ahmed (City College of New York) Co-PI: Heidi Dierssen (University of Connecticut) Co-PI: Alexander Gilerson (City College of New York) Co-PI: William F. Gilly (Stanford University) Co-PI: George Kattawar (Texas A & M...