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Centene to acquire South Carolina Medicaid managed care provider Carolina Crescent. Health insurer Centene Corp. plans to acquire Carolina Crescent Health Plan and expand its South Carolina Medicaid enrollment.

Harvard sophomore John Edwards was studying to become a doctor and training for the Boston Marathon in June 2007 when he sought help at the university's Health Services because he could not study for as many hours as some of his friends. A nurse practitioner prescribed a drug to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a condition the overachieving Edwards had never been diagnosed with. Later, she prescribed two powerful antidepressants, Prozac and Wellbutrin, when he began complaining of anxiety, depression, and other side effects. Meanwhile, he was taking a fourth drug for acne, Accutane, that has been linked to suicidal thoughts. ``The Wellbutrin is having the effect that we were seeking . . . but unfortunately I feel like it has canceled out the anxiety-reducing effects of the fluoxetine [Prozac], as recently I've been pretty nervous,'' Edwards wrote in a Nov. 27, 2007, e-mail to the nurse practitioner, Marianne Cannon. ``Let me know if I should schedule to come in and meet

Judge sets hearing date for former Yale lab technician charged with murdering graduate student. A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory wall appeared in court Tuesday but did not enter a plea to murder.

A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory wall appeared in court Tuesday but did not enter a plea to murder.

Cal's Rogers, who won't play basketball because of heart condition, released from hospital. Tierra Rogers, the highly touted California freshman forward diagnosed with a rare heart condition, was released from a San Francisco hospital Friday night a day after having a defibrillator implanted.

Anita Barry, a veteran disease investigator for the city of Boston, was at Logan International Airport, briefing officials about a worrisome new virus, when her cellphone jangled. We need you back in the office, the caller said. Right now. Swine flu had landed in Boston. Barry listened with growing apprehension. This new flu had taken root on Harvard University's medical campus, in the shadow of some of the world's most-famous hospitals. A dental student involved with treating patients was sick, and lab tests strongly suggested he was infected with the mysterious virus that headlines that morning warned had killed more than 150 people in Mexico. And he wasn't the only one feeling ill. ``I thought, `This could be a real problem,' '' Barry recalled. ``And of all the places for this to happen, to have it happen in the Longwood Medical Area, it was kind of the perfect storm.'' Over the next 10 hours on that Thursday a week ago, as afternoon melted into evening, investigators from the city

Boston health authorities last night closed the Harvard dental school's treatment clinic, and the university temporarily suspended classes at all three of its major schools on the Longwood medical campus as a precaution after a third-year dental student developed ``a probable case'' of swine flu. Disease investigators from the Boston Public Health Commission are reviewing whether the student treated patients at the Longwood Avenue clinic while he was contagious. They are also tracking down any students and faculty members who might have had contact with him. The clinic treats about 50 patients a day, and the dental school has more than 200 students, faculty, and other staff members. The commission said it closed Harvard Dental Center until the extent of the illness could be determined. The officials said they had also requested cancellation of classes for third-year, fourth-year, and postdoctoral students and urged those students and their teachers and staff to stay home for now. As an

Boston health authorities last night closed the Harvard dental school's treatment clinic, and the university temporarily suspended classes at all three of its major schools on the Longwood medical campus as a precaution after a third-year dental student developed ``a probable case'' of swine flu. Disease investigators from the Boston Public Health Commission are reviewing whether the student treated patients at the Longwood Avenue clinic while he was contagious. They are also tracking down any students and faculty members who might have had contact with him. The clinic treats about 50 patients a day, and the dental school has more than 200 students, faculty, and other staff members. The commission said it closed Harvard Dental Center until the extent of the illness could be determined. The officials said they had also requested cancellation of classes for third-year, fourth-year, and postdoctoral students and urged those students and their teachers and staff to stay home for now. As an