PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lillian Chase, an aspiring actress and Barrington High School graduate who became gravely ill after contracting swine flu during her freshman year at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has died.
A picture of Lillian Chase from the Facebook page started by [...]Lillian Claire Chason, the Barrington woman who was diagnosed with swine flu while attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has died.
Officials at the University of North Carolina Hospitals confirmed her death late Wednesday night in response to media inquiries.
The UNC freshman, who graduated from [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- A freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill remains in critical condition after being diagnosed with swine flu more than a week ago, said a spokeswoman for University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill.
Lillian Claire Chason, a 2009 Barrington high school graduate who [...]
Colleges and universities in Rhode Island next week will begin vaccinating students through age 24 who live on campus, as the availability of vaccine improves.
Additionally, school-based clinics will be held as scheduled next week and enough swine-flu vaccine for every child age 6 months through 5 years will arrive [...]
Thursday's Providence Journal front page reports that a Barrington man was captain of the Maersk Alabama when pirates tried taking over the ship for the second time in seven months.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The number of [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Health Department has confirmed that two women from Providence County have died this week from the H1N1 virus, or swine flu.
The women were both between the ages of 45 and 55, and they each had underlying medical conditions, according to spokeswoman Carol Hall-Walker. [...]
People without health insurance can get free shots against the seasonal flu -- not swine flu or H1N1 -- at the Rhode Island Free Clinic on Tuesday and Thursday.
The flu shots will be administered at 655 Broad St., Providence, at these times:
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1 to 4 [...]
