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• Roxbury, Mass., health clinic settles in dispute over English-first rule.

  - 2004-12-08

  By Johnny Diaz, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 8--Whittier Street Health Center announced a settlement yesterday with several Hispanic employees who fought an English-first policy at the Roxbury clinic. Mediated by the US Equal Employment Opportunity...

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• TAP Pharmaceutical agrees to $150 million settlement.

  - 2004-12-02

  By Alice Dembner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 2--TAP Pharmaceutical Products has agreed to pay $150 million to consumers and private insurers to settle claims they overpaid for its drug Lupron because the company artificially inflated the price. ...

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• Malpractice costs level off in Massachusetts, report says.

  - 2004-11-16

  By Scott Allen, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16--Jury awards and doctors' payments to settle malpractice lawsuits in Massachusetts have declined 8 percent from their peak in 2001, according to a new state report, potentially easing the insurance...

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• Most doctors lag in reviewing test results, Massachusetts study says.

  - 2004-11-09

  By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 9--Primary care doctors, who sometimes review hundreds of test results each week, reported in a new study that delays in reviewing results for patients are common, and many said they are...

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• Heart drug seen aiding blacks.

  - 2004-11-09

  By Stephen Smith, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 9--NEW ORLEANS -- New data released yesterday indicate that a drug developed by a Lexington biotech company reduced deaths dramatically in African-American heart patients, a finding that stoked a vigorous...

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• U.S. medical team near Fallujah, Iraq, doubles staff, supplies.

  - 2004-11-05

  By Anne Barnard, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The medical team that treats US casualties in the Fallujah area has doubled its staff and supplies to prepare for an expected assault on the insurgent stronghold,...

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• Top cardiologist to help Cambridge, Mass.-based firm develop blood product.

  - 2004-11-03

  By Jeffrey Krasner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Biopure Corp. of Cambridge said it hired prominent cardiologist Martin B. Leon as its consulting chief medical director, a move aimed to bring needed medical credibility to efforts to develop ...

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• Rheumatoid arthritis drug market heats up.

  - 2004-10-14

  By Christopher Rowland, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 14--The fight over the lucrative market for rheumatoid arthritis drugs is heating up. In the last five years, three similar drugs have been introduced that offer patients the...

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• Foxborough, Mass.-based medical device maker gets public stock listing.

  - 2004-10-08

  By Jeffrey Krasner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 8--Cyberkinetics Inc. of Foxborough, a pioneering company developing a medical device that could one day enable paralyzed people to control computers and even their own limbs just using thoughts, went ...

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• Thirteenth recipient of Danvers, Mass., firm's artificial heart dies.

  - 2004-09-28

  By Scott Allen, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 28--The 13th patient to receive the world's first fully implantable artificial heart died Sunday night after an unexpected malfunction in the device made by Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, company officials...

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