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September 03, 2009
Health Check: Rhode Island prepares for flu season
The seasonal flu and the swine flu could pack a one-two punch this fall.
September 02, 2009
Interactive: Health care legislation
Take an interactive look at key elements of the House and Senate versions of health care legislation.
Crisis experts urge RI colleges to plan for H1N1
H1N1 or swine flu is coming, and crisis experts say colleges need to prepare.
Interactive: Health care cost breakdown
Take an interactive look at costs associated with health care for each state, broken down by overall spending, hospital costs and premiums.
September 01, 2009
Health Check: Celebrating recovery
Rhode Island celebrates National Recovery Month with the unveiling of a recovery quilt.
August 31, 2009
Health Check: Separation anxiety
Ready or not, it’s back to school time.
August 28, 2009
Health Check: Defying goliath
NBC 10’s Barbara Morse Silva reports.
August 27, 2009
Health Check: Camp Braveheart
A special summer camp caters to young people who have lost a loved one.
August 26, 2009
Health Check: Kennedy’s brain cancer
NBC 10’s Barbara Morse Silva reports on the brain cancer Sen. Edward Kennedy spent a year battling.
August 25, 2009
Study: Americans eating too much sugar
A recent study finds the average American consumes 22 teaspons of sugar daily.
August 24, 2009
Researchers: Mutli-taskers ruining their brains
If you’re on your laptop right now, or your iPod or cell phone, stop.
August 20, 2009
U.S. colleges, universities prepare for swine flu
The nation’s colleges are preparing for an outbreak of swine flu.
August 18, 2009
Prescriptions can pack on pounds
Packing pounds on recently? It could be your medication.
August 17, 2009
Pregnant women urged not to overdo diet, exercise
A woman says she was starving herself during her pregnancy.
August 14, 2009
RI health insurers to cover smoking cessation treatments
Smokers in Rhode Island now have extra incentive to quit.
August 13, 2009
Millions suffer from seasonal depression in summer
Psychiatrists are starting to see more people getting depressed in the summer.
August 12, 2009
Tiny heart pump saves lives
A revolutionary heart pump is saving lives.
August 11, 2009
Question: Swine flu shot?
If a swine flu vaccine were available now, would you get vaccinated?
Health Check: What not to eat
A new book lists 30 foods you should avoid.
August 10, 2009
‘Fiber’ frenzy sweeping through U.S.
Consumers and manufacturers are on a “high fiber” fad.
August 05, 2009
Health Check: Breast cancer drug
A cancer survivor is willing to try new drugs to treat a rare form of breast cancer.
August 03, 2009
Millions of kids lacking in vitamin D
NBC’s Tracie Potts reports.
July 31, 2009
Health Check: Pre-esophogeal cancer
A condition that can lead to cancer, and the treatment to prevent it
July 29, 2009
Health Check: Blood Center celebration
NBC 10’s Barbara Morse Silva reports
Hidden Epidemic? Lawmakers enter debate over chronic Lyme disease
Medicine and politics collide in a debate over the existence of chronic Lyme disease.
Study: Tanning beds as deadly as arsenic
International experts classify tanning beds as definite causes of cancer.
July 28, 2009
Hidden Epidemic? Divide over chronic Lyme disease
Patients are caught in the middle of the debate over chronic Lyme disease.
July 27, 2009
Mass. reports 2 more swine flu-related deaths
Massachusetts health officials say the swine flu virus has now killed seven people in the state following the deaths of two more people.
July 23, 2009
Health Check: New cancer treatment
A new treatment for some patients with incurable cancer.
July 22, 2009
Health Check: Radio program
Some medical students are learning more than just medicine.
