By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff

The debate over the next stage of the state’s health care overhaul is in full swing now, reflected on the pages of the Boston Globe in more ways than one. Last week the paper covered a House proposal to cut the growth rate of health care costs in the state by about half. Today in the Metro section, Partners HealthCare ran a full-page advertisement touting the efforts it has taken in the past year to control health care costs.

By Gideon Gil, Globe Staff

Brigham and Women’s Hospital announced Thursday that it has appointed a new chairman of neurosurgery. Dr. E. Antonio Chiocca will lead the neurosurgery department at both the Brigham and Faulkner Hospital, beginning August 1. He has been chair of neurological surgery at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center since 2004, but he trained in Boston, completing his residency in neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.