Gilead Sciences Inc. will buy back as much as $1 billion of the company’s common stock through January 2011. (GILD)

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A hearing in Olympia Friday on proposed legislation related to unemployment insurance attracted business owners complaining that now’s the wrong time to raise unemployment insurance rates.

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Attorney General Gary King is asking the state insurance superintendent to reduce title insurance rates by more than 13.8 percent.

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The Washington state Department of Health has approved a certificate of need for a new $30 million hospital in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island that will open in two years.

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HCA Inc. — co-owner of Colorado’s HealthONE hospital chain — said Friday it expects to report net income of about $1.054 billion for fiscal 2009, compared with $673 million for 2008.

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The West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation has received a $5 million donation from Alice and Carl Kirkland, which will be used to build the Alice and Carl Kirkland Cancer Center in Jackson, Tenn. (KIRK)

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The BloodCenter of Wisconsin is contributing to a national effort to provide blood and blood products to support patients in Haiti.

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A new program that brings together Denver Public Schools (DPS), Denver Health, the University of Colorado Denver and Kaiser Permanente Colorado will receive two grants totaling more than $1.6 million from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for a pilot program intended to increase childhood immunization rates.

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Immunogen has lowered its financial guidance after its net loss widened in the recent quarter due to diminished partnership revenue.

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The U.S. Department of Labor is pressing states, including Alabama, to apply for more than $4 billion in unemployment insurance modernization funding.

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