The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island Sept. 30 denied motions from AbbVie and Novartis seeking a preliminary injunction against the state’s law protecting 340B pricing for contract pharmacy arrangements. The two companies were...
RHODE ISLAND, October 2 - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is currently open and operational as normal, despite the federal government shutdown. Benefits are active and can be used at WIC vendors,...
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New York, Hawaii, and New Jersey ranked best in the nation across common measures of mental health in 2022 and 2023, according to the latest State of Mental Health in America report from Mental...
Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in issuing a joint statement addressing concerns over a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of mifepristone. “For more than 25 years, mifepristone has been...
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is currently open and operational as normal, despite the federal government shutdown. Benefits are active and can be used at WIC vendors, and participants can still...
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is currently open and operational as normal, despite the federal government shutdown. Benefits are active and can be used at WIC vendors, and participants can still...
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today joined a coalition of 15 other attorneys general in suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for illegally requiring states to change sexual education programs to erase...
Published on Thursday, September 18, 2025 CRANSTON, R.I. – Jobs at Rhode Island businesses rose by 500 in August as the state’s unemployment rate dropped two-tenths of a percentage point to 4.6 percent. Over the year, jobs were up 1,700 from...
The Trump administration is threatening to pull funding for longstanding teen reproductive and sexual health education programs from states unless they remove language affirming young people’s gender identity. In response, Oregon, alongside 15...
A Rhode Island high school football team will not return to the field this year in league play due to low numbers and a rash of injuries. Tiverton High School Superintendent Christopher Haskins made the announcement that the football team can no...
KINGSTON, RI — A 2019 graduate of the University of Rhode Island won the Miss Rhode Island USA pageant. Brianna Vega will go on to represent the Ocean State at the Miss USA Pageant in Reno, Nevada, later this year. See also: Where To Celebrate...
Breadcrumb Trail Links Newsfile Ann Law launches her book The Law of Wellness on October 11 and hosts a wellness retreat from Oct 24-27 at The Blue Dory Inn, combining food, fitness, and mindset for lifelong health. Article content Block Island,...
Neronha, once adamant about strict conditions to protect the hospitals’ patients and workers, as well as taxpayers, has loosened those rules three times in 15 months. In a last-ditch effort, Neronha once again lowered the amount of cash reserves...
The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island Sept. 30 denied motions from AbbVie and Novartis seeking a preliminary injunction against the state’s law protecting 340B pricing for contract pharmacy arrangements. The two companies were...
Do you feel like we live in a healthy area of the United States? I've always thought that living in New England and the Tri-State area provides a much-better quality of life than less populated areas of our country, and now we have the data to...
MANSFIELD, MASS. (WHDH) - Two pedestrians were hospitalized after being struck by a car in Mansfield Thursday morning. Around 9:47 a.m., police responded to the area of 108 Oakland Street for a report of a crash involving two pedestrians, one man...
The following information was released by the office of Rhode Island Rep. Gabe Amo: Last night, House Republicans remained on vacation while they let the government shutdown rather than help 40,000 Rhode Islanders afford health care Washington,...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Rhode Island’s congressional delegation responded to the government shutdown on Wednesday. Senator Jack Reed (D) shared the following: “President Trump controls every branch of government and his failed policies are about...
Fourth in a five-part series. Sarah Elgatian was in too much pain to feel awkward. That morning in 2019, she was hunched over her toilet, feeling what she described as a “weird burning nausea,” abdominal pain and other symptoms. She remembered the...
