in 2007, over 255,000 (75%) received their health coverage through two domestic plans: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island (Blue Cross), and United Healthcare of New En-gland (United). Information about these plans is essential to determining if purchasers receive " value " from their premium dollars expended. 1 The Act instituted health plan performance reporting in the state, which is ...

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (C.D.F., L.M.A., N.J.C.), Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas (J.M.M., C.D.K.), Department of Discovery Toxicology, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey (D.M.N, L.D.L.), Department of Biomedical Pharmaceutica...

From the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket (F.D.M.); the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI (F.D.M.); and the Department of Pathophysiology, University of Athens Medical School, Athens (G.E.T.). Address reprint requests to Dr. McCool at the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medic...

Critical Care Center, Hospital de Sabadell, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, and Epidemiology and Assessment Unit, Instituto Universitario Fundación Parc Taulı́, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain; Servicio de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain; Medical ICU, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island; Servicio de ...

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...