Today's Globe: retail clinics, avoiding layoffs, brain injury exhibit, health insurance premiums, medical navigators, FDA pick, biogenerics, Mylan suit, lupus drug, Kenneth Siemen, Michael Shannon, Kenneth Siemen

Six months after the first CVS MinuteClinics opened in the state, thousands of Massachusetts residents have visited the in-store clinics for treatment of sore throats, bronchitis, and the flu.

"Paul Levy is onto something," columnist Kevin Cullen writes about the Beth Israel Deaconess CEO. "People are worried about the next paycheck, because they're only a few paychecks away from not being able to pay the mortgage or the rent. But a lot of them realize that everybody's in the same boat and that their boat doesn't rise because someone else's sinks."

An exhibit on display this week at the State House called "Brain Injury X-posed" features the work of long-term survivors.

Tens of thousands of residents who receive state-subsidized healthcare will avoid any increase in monthly premium costs this year, and some may even pay less, under a plan to be voted on today by state regulators.

At Your Side, a new medical advocacy program offered through North Shore Elder Services in Danvers, helps the frail elderly, people with physical or mental challenges, and those with limited English proficiency navigate the healthcare system.

President Obama intends to name New York City's former health commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, to lead the troubled Food and Drug Administration.

A bipartisan group in Congress wants to give the Food and Drug Administration power to approve copies of costly biotech drugs.

Mylan Inc., the biggest US maker of generic drugs, must face a lawsuit brought by Massachusetts over prices the company charged the state's Medicaid health program for medicines, a judge said.

Genentech Inc. and Biogen Idec Inc. said their drug Rituxan failed to significantly reduce kidney inflammation caused by lupus, the main goal of their late-stage trial.

Imagine a pas de deux danced by one, the mind of an accomplished physician in harmony with the body of a talented performer. From childhood, Michael W. Shannon knew what he wanted to do with his life. What he didn't know was that he had been born with a physical grace that would capture the attention of audiences as he moved across a stage.

Dr. Kenneth R. Siemen, a practicing dentist in Cambridge for 35 years, died of prostate and bone cancer Friday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was 62.