Chronic Lyme disease patients and their physicians now have additional reassurance that the guidelines are medically sound." The state of Connecticut, meanwhile, enacted a law on June 18, 2009, "to allow a licensed physician to prescribe, administer or dispense long-term antibiotics for a therapeutic purpose to a patient clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease." The states of Rhode Island, California, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Maine and Iowa have similar laws. Massachusetts (2016) and Rhode Island (2003) have laws mandating insurance coverage for long-term antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease when deemed medically necessary by a physician. In 1999 Connecticut had passed a similar,
Johnston, Rhode Island is set in Providence, Rhode Island. WLNE-TV ABC 6 Rhode Island News Channel broadcasts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. WPRI-TV 12 Fox 64 Providence Eyewitness News Channel broadcasts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. New England Cable News channel ("NECN") is a cable news station based in Boston which covers all of New England's news. Insurance company FM Global is based in Johnston. Johnston, Rhode Island Johnston is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 28,769 at the 2010 census. Johnston is the site of the Clemence Irons House (1691) a stone-ender museum and the only