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The Massachusetts House passed a bill yesterday that would require insurance companies to cover a broad range of services for children with autism, a measure that supporters say will help families of such children but that opponents worry will increase health costs, even as other legislation aimed at reining in health spending has been sidelined.

A newly formed group opposed to the proposed sale of Caritas Christi Health Care to a New York private equity firm wants the hospital chain to keep operating independently or merge with another Catholic health care provider.

A company hired by South Shore Hospital to destroy 800,000 obsolete computer records says the files were lost after the work was outsourced to a second firm (second item).

A judge ordered a new trial yesterday for a South Carolina man who blamed the antidepressant Zoloft after the then-12-year-old shot his grandparents to death and set their home on fire.

Sanofi-Aventis SA, France’s leading drug maker, has sued the US Food and Drug Administration in a bid to make it withdraw its clearance of a lower-cost rival to the company’s Lovenox blood thinner.

A form of Pfizer Inc.’s erection drug Viagra, sold as the blood-pressure treatment called Revatio for adults, may be used for children with a rare lung disorder if US regulators can agree on how to test it.

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