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• Shorter Boston Globe: How Elite Hospitals Rake in the Bucks

  BNET - 2009-01-02

  Top-tier hospitals in Massachusetts are raking in the bucks because they've convinced health-insurance companies to reimburse them at much higher rates than their competitors, the Boston Globe reports. But because the series clocks in at almost 15,000 words, we present the Just the Facts Edition of the emerging Massachusetts hospital...

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• Phase Forward Ranked 16th in Globe 100

  - 2008-05-20

  20th Annual Listing of Top-Performing Massachusetts-Based Public Companies Spotlights Life Sciences Software Pioneer for Second Consecutive Year WALTHAM, Mass. -- Phase Forward (NASDAQ: PFWD), a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, has been named to the "Globe 100" list of top-performing public companies...

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• Body shaping company Eleme Medical featured in The Boston Globe's "Office Invasion" series at Boston.com

  - 2008-03-25

  Company's SmoothShapes[TM] medical device is designed to offer new, innovative way to treat cellulite safely and effectively with long-lasting results that you can see MERRIMACK, N.H. -- Eleme Medical Inc., a premier aesthetics company entering the body shaping market with an initial focus on cellulite, announced today that The...

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• What Do Gun Control, Health Care and Iran Have in Common?

  - 2007-09-20

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Damien LaVera of Democratic National Committee, +1-202- 863-8148 WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Smooth talking Mitt Romney heads to Michigan today in the midst of one of the most shameless weeks in his presidential campaign. On Monday, Romney launched a desperate new attempt to distance himself from...

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• 7.5% Payroll Tax Will Devastate California's Small Business Economy

  - 2007-05-16

  Should California Really Rely on One Economist? SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Legislative leaders announced today a 7.5% employer mandate, well above the 4% payroll tax proposed by the Governor that will lead to nothing more than businesses closing and job loss. None of the health care reform proposals guarantee that...

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• Charles M. Sennott

  - 2007-04-01

  Boston Globe, February 11, 2007 "Told to Wait, a Marine Dies." As the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War approaches, it's a lamentable fact that America does not provide adequate medical services to soldiers returning from combat. The Boston Globe's Charles M. Sennott provides the tragic...

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• DNC: Ad Watch: More Smooth Talk, No Reality in Romney Ads

  - 2007-02-20

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Damien LaVera of the DNC, +1-202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is a release from the Democratic National Committee: With conservative leaders rejecting him, leading opinion-makers questioning his election year conversions on key issues, and polls showing him stuck in the mud in early primary...

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• DNC: Another Rough Weekend for Smooth-Talking Mitt

  - 2007-01-22

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Stacie Paxton or Damien LaVera of Democratic National Committee, +1-202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by the Democratic National Committee on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: Smooth-talking Mitt Romney had yet another rough weekend. The Boston Globe reported that conservative activist...

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• The monthly journalism award

  - 2006-12-01

  Farah Stockman, Michael Kranish, Peter S. Canellos and Kevin Baron The Boston Globe, October 8-11, 2006 Early in his first term, President Bush urged Congress to overturn 40-year-old rules keeping religion out of government contracting. The bill failed, but a remarkable investigation by The Boston Globe reveals that in...

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• Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of the Catholic Church of Boston is again being accused of turning his back on victims of sexual abuse, this time at the Caritas Christi Health Care System

  - 2006-07-01

  Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of the Catholic Church of Boston is again being accused of turning his back on victims of sexual abuse, this time at the Caritas Christi Health Care System. The hospital's president, Robert Haddad, was not immediately fired by the archbishop of Boston following allegations that he...

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