Today's Globe: Fenway food, green hospitals, Walgreens clinics, MIT lab explosion, life expectancy, bird flu, salmonella source, Randolph Chase Jr.

Fenway Park's food stands flunked city health inspections on more than a dozen health and safety measurements on Red Sox opening day April 8, from storing food at unsafe temperatures to failing to clean food preparation counters.

Hospital and nursing home building projects would have to be environmentally friendly to win crucial state approval under sweeping regulations proposed yesterday by Massachusetts health authorities.

Drugstore giant Walgreens is seeking state approval to open medical clinics inside 16 of its Massachusetts stores, providing the first sign of competition for CVS's MinuteClinics, which earlier this year outlined plans to expand into the state.

An explosion in a laboratory at MIT injured a graduate student working on a project early yesterday evening, officials said (third item).

Americans' life expectancy reached a record high of 78.1 years in 2006, with disparities among ethnic groups and between the sexes generally narrowing, according to government data released yesterday.

Hong Kong authorities said yesterday they planned to kill all chickens in the territory's retail markets because of fears of a dangerous bird flu outbreak.

Federal health officials haven't yet traced the source of salmonella-tainted tomatoes but, amid an outcry from farmers, are clearing untainted crops as fast as possible (sixth item).

Dr. Randolph M. Chase Jr., one of the first tenured black members of the New York University medical school faculty and an infectious disease specialist whose research shed light on organ transplant rejections, died May 16 in Manhattan. He was 79.