Healthcare Review

Six grants awarded to Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center in the last month alone
Providence RI – The Miriam Hospital’s Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center (WCDRC) recently received six research grants from the National Institutes of Health – totaling more than $12 million in funding – that will support the work of researchers focused [...]

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Investigators receive grants from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act
Belmont —Ten researchers from McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School (HMS), have received grants totaling $7.7 million from the National Institutes (NIH) of Health. The funding was made available under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the [...]

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Hartford, CT – $129,000 of additional new funding is being distributed to the Connecticut State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), the CHOICES program, to help Medicare beneficiaries in Connecticut get more information about their health care choices. Of this, $71,751 is a performance award for the Connecticut SHIP.  Performance awards are provided to SHIPs that [...]

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Hard-to-find pulmonary rehab program begins at Gifford
Randolph VT – Gerald “Rory” O’Connor’s South Royalton farmland is typical of Vermont topography. It’s hilly terrain rises and falls.
For most people that would not be problem, but for O’Connor it has become one.
“I had in recent years noticed that I had trouble breathing after any exertion. If [...]

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The NHLBI’s COPD Learn More Breathe Better Campaign expands community network to New Hampshire
Concord NH – Breathe New Hampshire, a statewide lung health organization, has been awarded a $47,000 contract by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. The contract award was approved by the NHLBI as [...]

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Winthrop, Maine – When Augusta mother Melissa Lebel was carrying her first child, her pregnancy was “relatively problem-free,” with little pain or sickness.
Her second pregnancy, by comparison, was not. That experience and the caring support she received from the MaineGeneral Midwifery Service staff in Winthrop has made her a strong proponent of the program and [...]

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