Today's Globe: drugstore clinic coverage, children on ventilators, healthcare law costs, cellphone warning, smoking fight, statin side-effect gene, nursing home fraud, ex-Serono officer plea, sunscreen stress, Lyall Watson

Some of the state's largest health insurers say they will cover visits to the retail health clinics expected to open in CVS and Walgreens drugstores later this year, making the clinics attractive options for the treatment of everyday ailments.

Thanks to advances in technology, more children than ever are living on ventilators at home, instead of in intensive care units. The children are among the sickest in the state, but the newly developed portable ventilators allow them to survive outside a hospital.

A coalition of business and insurance groups is vigorously lobbying lawmakers against Governor Deval Patrick's plan to collect millions of dollars from them to help close a $130 million gap this year in funding of the state's landmark health insurance law.

The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff yesterday: Limit cellphone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday that they will spend $500 million to stop people around the world from smoking.

British researchers have located a gene responsible for muscle pain or weakness experienced by some people taking statin drugs to fight "bad" cholesterol, they reported yesterday.

Two Massachusetts brothers pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing Medicaid funds and neglecting patients at five nursing homes they formerly owned.

A former medical director for Serono Laboratories Inc., Norma Muurahainen, pleaded guilty in federal court to helping distribute medical software to diagnose AIDS wasting, without approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

Sun protection: You're burned if you do, burned if you don't.

Lyall Watson, a maverick scientific polymath and explorer who wrote the best-selling book "Supernature" and introduced the "hundredth monkey" theory to explain the sudden and inexplicable transmission of behavior and ideas across social groups, died June 25 in Gympie, Australia.