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• Survey shows Massachusetts leads nation in use of generic drugs.

  - 2004-12-06

  By Christopher Rowland, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 6--Massachusetts leads the nation in the use of generic drugs, with 51 percent of its prescriptions written for the cheaper, non-brand medications, according to a survey. New Jersey,...

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• Complaint charges Wilmington, Mass., lab supplier with animal cruelty.

  - 2004-09-10

  By Christopher Rowland, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 10--The deaths of two chimpanzees named Ashley and Rex, and a close call for a third, Topsy, at a government facility in the New Mexico desert have resulted in criminal charges...

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• TAP acquittals shouldn't mean incentives return, advocates say.

  - 2004-07-15

  By Christopher Rowland, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 15--Although a federal jury in Boston acquitted sales representatives and midlevel managers in the TAP Pharmaceutical Products case yesterday, it is unlikely drug companies will return to expensive junkets and...

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• Biodefense Companies Thrive on Public's Anxiety.

  - 2004-03-22

  By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 22--Some drug makers don't mind a little fear in the market. Take, for instance, the experience of Anbex Inc. of New York, which sells potassium iodide tablets meant to...

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• Kerry-go-round

  - 2004-02-05

  Winning five out of seven party elections on Tuesday seems to have confirmed Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry as the likely Democrat torch bearer in the race against President George Bush. But these early contests tend to reflect the preferences of a minority within a minority -- the most liberal, militant...

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• Granite State Gives Edwards Bounce.

  - 2004-01-22

  By Raja Mishra, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 22--NASHUA, N.H. -- Lunchtime at Roland's Diner had not been as crowded this political season as it was yesterday, with so many cameramen and campaign workers jostling one another and patrons,...

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• Eyeing 28 Acres, Boston College Sees Chance to Ease Squeeze on Campus.

  - 2003-12-14

  By Marcella Bombardieri, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 14--It was arguably the most electrifying news to hit Boston College in years. Not the arrival of a coveted star professor, or BC's first two Rhodes scholarships ever, or even a...

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• Boston Doctors Say Web Sites Hawking Dietary Supplements Make Unproven Claims.

  - 2003-09-17

  By Christopher Rowland, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 17--While many Americans are seeking better health through the use of herbal dietary supplements, more than half of the Internet sites that peddle gingko, valerian root, St. John's wort, ginseng, and...

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• Canada Fills Drug Prescriptions for Springfield, Mass., Employees.

  - 2003-07-30

  By Alice Dembner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 30--The city of Springfield has established what is apparently the nation's first municipal program to buy discount prescription drugs in Canada for its employees and retirees, joining a rising wave ...

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• Europeans, Russians Accuse United States of Hoarding Contracts to Rebuild Iraq.

  - 2003-03-20

  By Stephen J. Glain, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 20--WASHINGTON--The Bush administration is preparing to invest billions of dollars in Iraqi hospitals, schools, and roads immediately after the end of hostilities against Baghdad, in part to assure the ...

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