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Partners HealthCare was born in 1993, but its powerhouse potential didn't fully hit home until 2000. That's when the emerging giant cut a quiet deal with Blue Cross to ratchet up insurance costs across the state. Nothing in Massachusetts healthcare has been the same since.

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Capuano shifts on health overhaul

US Representative Michael E. Capuano, in a significant departure from his forceful rhetoric a day earlier, said yesterday that he would vote against a final health care bill if it includes a provision restricting federal funding for abortion. (By Matt Viser, Globe Staff)

Debate continues over diagnostic scans for lung cancer

For the 42 percent of Americans who smoke cigarettes or once did, a ruling from the state’s highest court last month seemed to offer hope that a simple screening tool could help them ward off advanced lung cancer.

A day in the life of a pandemic

On Thursday it was 63,500 swine flu doses, and hundreds of thousands in need. So who will get the vaccine? Inside the world of the state officials and doctors who must make that sobering choice, and of the worried people clamoring to be next in line

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