Web glitches hurt Obamacare-created health insurer

An experimental new health insurance company created under a provision of Obamacare — with 
$88.5 million in federal funds — is now struggling to enroll members because of the state's broken Health Connector website. "It's not a pleasant turn of events,...

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Correction: Health Overhaul-Spanish story

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a story Jan. 12 about the Spanish-language health care website, The Associated Press erroneously cited a U.S. Census Bureau statistic on the number of U.S. residents who speak only Spanish. A 2013 Census report said 12.9 percent...

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Google develops contact lens glucose monitor

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google unveiled Thursday a contact lens that monitors glucose levels in tears, a potential reprieve for millions of diabetics who have to jab their fingers to draw their own blood as many as 10 times a day. The prototype, which...

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Concert Pharmaceuticals trumpets plans to go public

A Lexington company that claims it can make approved drugs and drug candidates safer, more tolerable and more effective has become the fourth Massachusetts biotech company in the past month that intends to go public. In a filing this week with the U.S....

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State criticizes closing of Isis

The state's Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation is calling on Isis Parenting to give its customers — many of them expectant parents — better information to help them adjust to the chain's sudden closure announcement. The Needham company,...

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B.R.A. OKs $500M Landmark center

Mayor Martin J. Walsh told hundreds of retailers the city will soon usher in a "new era of transparency" at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, just hours before the agency met for the first time since he took office, approving a massive Landmark Center...

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High-end rentals offer way of life

It may be off-season for rentals, but a thousand high-end apartments have hit the Boston market. The Victor near North Station has come on with 286 units, there's 381 apartments at the Kensington in Chinatown, the 99-unit Gatehouse 75 in Charlestown...

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Mass. hospital group to defend expansion

BOSTON — The largest hospital and physician network in Massachusetts is defending its plan to merge with Weymouth's South Shore Hospital and a related doctors' group, saying it save about $27 million annually in health care costs. Partners HealthCare,...

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Partners: State board wrong on South Shore Hospital acquisition

Medical giant Partners HealthCare is hitting back after a state commission last month said its proposed acquisition of South Shore Hospital would raise costs and do nothing for the quality of care. In a document it will give the Health Policy Commission...

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US employers advertise most jobs since March 2008

WASHINGTON — U.S. employers advertised more jobs in November and more Americans quit, positive signs for millions who are unemployed and looking for work. The Labor Department said Friday that job openings rose 1.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted 4...

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