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Medical Product Changes Stemming from User Centered Design Live from MD&M BIOMEDigital: a startup, a consultancy, and a large brand owner talk about how interacting with end users changed their medical device and machinery designs. Apr 6th, 2021 At this week’s MD&M BIOMEDigital, industry experts held a discussion on the role of user centered design (UCD) in next-gen medical product development. As Tor Alden, global design, engineering and human factors lead at HS Design, Inc., explained, UCD is a methodology that focuses on gaining a deeper understanding of the product end user. It outl...

4/6/2021 Chief Silva: Old home has proven a valuable training ground This home behind the old public safety complex has been put to use as a training center for town firefighters. (Breeze photo by Ethan Shorey) NORTH PROVIDENCE – An old home behind the town’s former public safety complex on Mineral Spring Avenue has been a valuable resource in training for firefighters, says Chief John Silva. There have been some continued claims from some that Mayor Charles Lombardi is employing a double standard by allowing the 1967 home at 175 Bourne Ave. to continue sitting in a deteriorated state eve...

NORTH PROVIDENCE – Initially told no in response to his effort to vaccinate the town’s immobile residents in their homes, Mayor Charles Lombardi pushed last week until he got the response he wanted. About 20 people received vaccinations from town personnel at home, following a “very successful” 1,300 vaccinations of older residents at town-run COVID-19 vaccine clinics, said Lombardi. There were initially seven people listed as needing a visit, but Lombardi said an effort to publicize the effort drew another 13 people or so. “It was great, I really feel good about it,” he said. Out...

Saturday, March 6, 2021 Prentiss Neal McFadden, 77, was called home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 after a short illness. He was preceded in death by his parents, Elgin McFadden, Sr. and Ruby Wilks McFadden, his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.I. Wilks, and his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.P. McFadden, a brother, Richard “Buddy” McFadden and a nephew, Ben McFadden. He leaves behind his wife of 30 years, Mary McFadden, a brother, Elgin McFadden, Jr., a sister-in-law, Sue McFadden, and stepson, John Silva, nephews Michael McFadden, wife Sheri, Joe McFadden,...

NORTH PROVIDENCE – The town’s first in a series of vaccine clinics for residents age 75 and older over the weekend was seamless and left everyone “very, very happy and satisfied,” said Mayor Charles Lombardi. The mayor said a total of 259 people were vaccinated in the closed-pod clinic at North Providence High School last Saturday. “Not one vaccine was left over,” he said, adding that he told Fire Chief John Silva, the town’s EMA director, that with vaccines at a shortage, there was no option to have any left at the end of the day. Lombardi thanked Silva and the Fire Department,...