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Cutting care for illegal immigrants <br> won’t improve the nation’s health

The 2004 movie “A Day Without a Mexican” alarmed the nation’s non-Mexican employers. Many restaurants, landscape services, factories, hotels and retailers would close without...

CVS.com adds health-management tools

WOONSOCKET – CVS/pharmacy last week relaunched its Web site, CVS.com, adding new tools that allow consumers to not only manage their prescriptions online, but...

Judge: Hire consultants to help assess Landmark

An R.I. Superior Court judge today authorized a special master to hire health-care industry experts from the Albany office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to help...

Union fires back at Carcieri

NORTH PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Council 94, the union representing about one third of active state employees in Rhode Island, called on Gov. Donald...

Carcieri: No new talks with Council 94

PROVIDENCE – “There will be no resumption of negotiations with Council 94,” the union representing about one third of active state employees in...

One-time costs shrink UnitedHealth’s 2Q profit

MINNEAPOLIS – UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), the nation’s largest health insurer, today posted a second-quarter profit of $1.46 billion, a 29.5-percent decline from the year-ago...

R.I. panel defers decision on VMA, citing new info

PROVIDENCE – At the request of the petitioners, the R.I. State Properties Committee this morning delayed a decision on the transfer of Veterans Memorial...

Providence software developer to handle<br> e-records for Einstein College of Medicine

NEW YORK – SMART Management Inc., a Providence-based software developer, has been chosen by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to facilitate the school’s...

Local information sector gains jobs in June

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s information sector added 100 new jobs in June, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training announced in an otherwise gloomy...

UMass study: Small businesses <br> better at navigating Web 2.0

DARTMOUTH - Fast-growing small businesses are adopting Web 2.0 tools at a far faster pace than large established corporations, according to new research. Among the...
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