Today's Globe: Genomics X Prize, insurers' cost curb plan, mental health gap, FDA inadequacies, hormone and anorexia

Serial entrepreneur Marc Hodosh, 34, senior director of the Archon Genomics X Prize, is looking for a faster and cheaper way to analyze DNA so people have a better chance of fighting off diseases.

A group of Massachusetts health insurers yesterday proposed a wide-ranging set of recommendations intended to help control rising premiums and provide consumers with more information about why rates go up.

Lack of mental health care for her adoptive kids has caused grief to Kathy O'Loughlin's family. Now she's on a mission to fix the system.

Lives are at risk because the US Food and Drug Administration is woefully behind in the latest scientific advances and is under funded for its vast responsibilities, a specialist panel will tell the FDA next Monday.

The male half of opposite-sex twins shares a similar risk as his sister of developing the eating disorder anorexia later in life, a finding that researchers said yesterday suggests exposure in the womb to a female sex hormone might be responsible.