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New England can boast three of the top five states in the nation for children's overall well-being, according to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy foundation based in Baltimore. [perfectpullquote align="full" cite="" link="" color="
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TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) — For Kim Vaillancourt, pregnant while staving off aggressive brain cancer, it comes down to this: "The baby saved me. Now it's my turn to save him." Vaillancourt was diagnosed with glioblastoma after going to the hospital for headaches and nausea that came
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Rose Hawthorne (1851-1926) was the daughter of author Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia Peabody. After suffering deep personal tragedy, she found solace in serving the terminally ill and the poor. Rose eventually founded the modern hospice movement, which had worldwide reverberations for compassionate end-of-life treatment. When Rose was two
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Written by Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE — Spending on health care in Massachusetts climbed to $54 billion in 2014, according to a new report, significantly outpacing both state economic growth and the benchmark set under the state's 2012 cost containment law as enrollment and cost growth at MassHealth exploded.
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