Today's Globe: coverage cost up $400m, transplant tolerance, dental-care disparities, SCHIP veto, suicide studies in drug trials, adult vaccines, South Shore network, paramedic blogger

Spending on the state's landmark health insurance initiative would rise by more than $400 million next year, representing one of the largest increases in the $28.2 billion state budget the governor proposed yesterday.

A recent study headed by Dr. David H. Sachs (left) has lead to a breakthrough in organ transplantation. Four out of five of his patients have experienced no organ rejection, even though they received kidneys that were different from their own tissue type.

Although more Massachusetts children are getting needed dental care than in the past, low-income and nonwhite children lag behind their peers, according to a report released today by Delta Dental of Massachusetts, an insurance company.

House Democrats failed for the second time in nearly four months yesterday to override President Bush's veto of a proposed $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

After decades of inattention to the possible psychiatric side effects of experimental medicines, the Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal during clinical trials.

Vaccines are not just for children, but far too few adults are rolling up their sleeves, federal health officials reported yesterday. The numbers of newly vaccinated adults are surprisingly low, considering how much public attention a trio of new shots - which protect against shingles, whooping cough, and cervical cancer - received in recent years.

By creating a community-based network of doctors on the South Shore who share patient medical records and databases, Brockton Hospital's new Signature Healthcare hopes to keep local more patients who might otherwise go to Boston, particularly for specialists. The new network is the first one south of Boston to be based on other regional models, such as the Lahey Clinic on the North Shore and the far larger Partners HealthCare Systems Inc. of Boston.

Jay Weaver may be the only emergency medical worker in Boston who blogs - he hasn't come across any others - and his entries offer a rare glimpse into the daily emergencies that rarely make the news. His prose is a grittier version of doctor/writers like William Carlos Williams and Oliver Sacks.