Is the health care bill so bad we have to put it out of its misery, or can we save something and work for better? Salon has a prescription. [...] Students who are home from out-of-state colleges are eligible to attend two swine flu vaccination clinics to be held during their winter recess.
The state Department of Health will hold clinics on Dec. 30, from10 a.m. to 6 p.m, and on Jan. 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Both will [...]
John Cucco of the Rhode Island Department of Health wants to get the word out to young Rhode Island residents and college students — the swine flu vaccine is now available.
Young adults through the age of 24 can now get H1N1 flu vaccine [...]
By John E. Mulligan
Journal Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee is taking advantage of the slow progress on the national health care overhaul to meet Christmas Eve for some unfinished business -- including the nomination of Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson to the 1st [...]
Arianne Lynch at Advocacy Solutions sends along this amusing video from a pro-health care reform group, the Young Invincibles, attempting to get young people involved in the push.
A SurveyUSA poll this summer found that young people supported health care reform more than any other age bracket. From the [...]
When you can’t change jobs or strike out on your own without risking health insurance for yourself and your family. Good analysis here. [...] 
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[...]WEST GREENWICH, R.I. -- As the last of 421 school swine flu clinics wrapped up on Tuesday afternoon, state health director David Gifford announced plans to make the vaccine available to the broader population over the next couple of months.
H1N1 shots will be distributed almost immediately to physicians' offices' [...]
Today as thousands are flocking to DC for the Code Red Rally at the Senate, it is imperative that we step it up with calls and faxes! We need you to start right now by calling all the Senators on the list then call your two [...]
Feeling blue about health care reform, the state budget mess, the imminent departure of Jason Bay? Cheer up with Not for Nothing, Providence Daily Dose, Kmareka and RIFuture for the "Providence Blogosphere Holiday Spectacular" tomorrow night, Wednesday, at the 201 - that's at 201 Westminster Street, Providence. The festivities kick off at [...]
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has a nifty summation of the state of the health care debate in The New York Times:
“If you compared it to the alternative, it looks good,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, about the prospect of moving ahead with a measure that does not [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-- The Lifespan and Care New England hospital networks, which have been involved for years in protracted efforts to merge, have been granted an extension until March 31 to complete their state merger application.
If approved, the merger would create the state's largest health care and hospital system.
Attorney General Patrick [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state's chief medical examiner has announced that he will take a higher-paying job in Connecticut early next year after earning credit for turning around a problem-plagued office during the past three years, according to the Health Department.
But the departure of Thomas P. Gilson will leave [...]
The Rhode Island Republican Party's scuffle over a platform that would embrace candidates with moderate positions on social issues like abortion is, perhaps, the worst signal the state GOP could send at this moment.
Anti-incumbent feeling is brewing nationwide as the economy continues to struggle and health care reform tumbles in [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch late Wednesday said Rhode Island will get more than $150,000 as part of an agreement with two companies in the health-care industry to settle allegations that the businesses engaged in kickback schemes that defrauded federal and state health-care programs.
The states and [...]
Participation in school-based flu clinics is starting to drop off, a trend that worries Health Director David R. Gifford, who continues to advise parents to get their children vaccinated against swine flu.
Parents are losing the sense of urgency about vaccine, he said, because the number of cases is declining. But [...]
And you thought it was over. Just as Patrick Kennedy's fight with Bishop Tobin over health care and abortion was quieting down, his cousin Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, has written a piece in Politico taking on the Catholic bishops on the issue:
As someone who was raised [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. --The University of Rhode Island has been awarded 30 health and science research grants totaling $12.3 million, all financed through the federal stimulus program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation awarded the grants, which [...]
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Fire Chief Alfred Bertoncini served his last shift Monday, following through on his plan to retire for health reasons.
Mayor Charles A. Lombardi said the 75-year-old chief told him he would retire in a conversation that took place Thursday.
"This was not a surprise," he added, noting that [...]
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Nonprofit agencies in Rhode Island will get $1 million in stimulus money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, officials said Monday.
The money will be used to help more than 40 organizations manage their agencies, find grant money and grow during an economic downturn, [...]
The Providence Journal ran a recent piece suggesting, rightly, that pro-life Congressman Jim Langevin will play a more central role in the Congressional tussle over health care reform and abortion than Congressman Patrick Kennedy.
Langevin was among a small group of representatives who tried to work out a compromise that would prevent abortion [...]
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In exchange for job security, school custodians and maintenance workers have agreed to less sick time, higher health-insurance contributions, six furlough days and several other concessions that will save the school district more than $1 million over the next three years.
The City Council accepted the [...]
The Providence Journal, buffeted by declining circulation and advertising revenue, has re-hired three laid-off copy editors to do part-time, sporadic work.
John Hill, president of the Providence Newspaper Guild, says he does not read the move as a sign of a marked improvement in the paper's financial health - but rather, an [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As if he doesn't have enough to worry about with health care, abortion and the Roman Catholic Church, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy has turned up in a photo on Facebook with presidential dinner-crasher Michaele and Tareq Salahi.
The photo is one of many in Michaele Salahi's Facebook' [...]
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