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A Rhode Island nurse was attacked by a patient, leaving him critically injured, according to NBC affiliate WJAR. The male nurse was attacked by a psychiatric patient on Friday at Rhode Island Hospital, the Providence Police Department told the news outlet. The suspect patient was identified as 37-year-old George Bower, who appeared before a Providence judge on Monday virtually due…

A former nurse has been indicted on accusations that she diverted opioids from a Boston-area hospital, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday. Andrea Falzano, 38, from Winchester is being charged with unlawfully obtaining controlled substances by fraud, deception and subterfuge. She was arrested early Friday morning and will appear in federal court in the afternoon. The indictment says that...