The Miriam Hospital

NIH awards Miriam Hospital, Beth Israel $1.3M for mobile-enabled weight loss study

By Aditi Pai 09:29 am October 26, 2015

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Providence's Miriam Hospital and Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center a $1.3 million grant so that researchers can conduct a mobile-enabled study to research weight loss after bariatric surgery. The researchers will begin recruiting participants...

Weight Watchers wants to find out if connected scales really help

By Jonah Comstock 09:12 am April 16, 2015

Weight Watchers is recruiting for a randomized control trial that will test the addition of a connected scale into its online weight loss intervention, according to a posting on ClinicalTrials.gov. The Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island will play host to a six-month double blind study that will compare Weight Watchers' online program with and without the addition of an electronic scale...