Today's Globe: anti-obesity campaign, no Purple Hearts for PTSD, C-section timing, teen birth rates, transgenic drug, BMC settlement

Major restaurant chains in Massachusetts would be required to prominently post the calorie counts for all their offerings - at the counter or on the menu - under a far-reaching anti-obesity campaign that Governor Deval Patrick's administration is expected to announce today.

The Pentagon has decided that it will not award the Purple Heart, the hallowed medal given to those wounded or killed by enemy action, to war veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder because it is not a physical wound.

Babies do better after a scheduled caesarean section if they're born no sooner than seven days before their due date, a large study of US births involving 13,258 women shows.

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says.

A federal advisory panel is scheduled to consider tomorrow whether to recommend US approval for Framingham company GTC Biotherapeutics Inc.'s drug that is made with the help of genetically altered goats.

The state attorney general's office says Boston Medical Center has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle allegations it overcharged the state for emergency services provided to low-income patients.

"Public health, unlike the banking, insurance, or automobile industries, cannot be rescued or bailed out. Prevention is the only viable option," Richard A. Daynard and Mark Gottlieb of the Public Health Advocacy Institute write on the op-ed page. "A sophisticated and aggressive federal approach to obesity is needed."