Today's Globe: gene-test warning, teen alcohol, mentally ill children, Cape depression

California regulators warned 13 genetic testing companies, including Knome Inc. in Cambridge, to stop marketing their products in California unless they comply with state licensing and testing laws.

Many of the nation's estimated 10.8 million underage drinkers are turning to their parents or other adults for free alcohol.

"The state Department of Mental Health could set up a website or a hotline to track psychiatric beds, so that children in distress can be placed rapidly," a Globe editorial says. "And that should be only one modest step in a larger overhaul of the state's public and private mental health resources."

"If [a waiting-room survey] results in a better life for those whose depression would otherwise be overlooked, then it's got to be seen as a happy thing," Hamilton Kahn, who lives in Wellfleet and hosts "In The News" on WOMR FM, writes on the op-ed page. "But as far as the slight against me and my fellow Cape Codders implied in the survey's results, I find that depressing, but pretty much to be expected around this time of year, when we once again become objects of passing curiosity from tourists."