Effective communication between health care providers and immigrants who may speak little or no English is the foundation of evaluation and treatment and the most important component of the doctor-patient relationship. An immigrant in Rhode Island may speak any one of a number of languages; Spanish, Portuguese, Cambodian and Italian are the most widely spoken. Although many physicians and other...

This study tested the prediction that when the number of participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program exceeds a certain threshold an influence of coherence is created in the collective consciousness of society, resulting in a profound and measurable improvement in the quality of life. This prediction was tested by measuring the effects of an experimental intervention in th...

For over ten years, the Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) has sponsored the monthly submission of Health by Numbers to Medicine & Health/Rhode Island. The principal reason for this collaboration has been to offer physicians a statewide perspective of the health status of the population and the characteristics of the health care system. A second reason has been to demonstrate to physici...

Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis, is transmitted by Amblyomma americanum ticks, which are most abundant in the southern United States. Because serologic evidence suggests that residents of Connecticut are exposed to E. chaffeensis, A. americanum ticks were collected in Connecticut and Rhode Island for PCR analysis to detect E. chaffeensis DNA. Eight of ...

Since 1975, Rhode Island has operated a government-sponsored catastrophic health insurance program that is consistent in spirit with several of the national health insurance proposals. An important but often overlooked effect of such a program is its effect on the distribution of income. Actual claims data for the years 1975-79 are available for the Rhode Island program permitting direct estima...

Ethical Ambiguities in Participatory Action Research With Unauthorized Migrants Kalina Brabeck, M. Brinton Lykes, Erin Sibley & Prachi Kene a Department of Counseling, Educational Leadership & School Psychology Rhode Island College, Center for Human Rights and International Justice Boston College b Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology Department, Center for Human Rights and Inte...

From the Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI. Presented at the 2010 American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, IL, November 12–16, 2010. The online-only Data Supplement is available at http://circ.ahajournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.012112/-/DC1. Correspondence to R...