Today's Globe: Pfizer case, stolen rings, exercise, children's drug warnings, June Burns

Top marketing executives at Pfizer suppressed a large European study suggesting their blockbuster medication Neurontin was ineffective for chronic nerve pain, and they privately strategized about how to silence a British researcher who wanted to go public with the data, according to newly filed documents and e-mails that are part of a Boston court case.

The wedding rings that were stolen from the fingers of a woman who died in Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton hospital have been returned anonymously, a relative of the woman said.

Adults should aim to get in 2 1/2 hours of exercise a week and children should run and play for at least an hour a day, according to new exercise guidelines issued by the government yesterday.

Makers of over-the-counter cold and cough drugs added warnings against use in children younger than 4 years old after doctors and government advisers said the medicines are risky and may not work.

June C. (Rahilly) Burns of Wollaston died of cancer Sunday at Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester, where she had ended her 44-year nursing career in 1999. She was 76.