In case you missed it: cutting elder-care costs, Danvers opening, Ed Bromfield, frozen embryo loss, healthcare overhaul

In the Sunday Globe:

Massachusetts General Hospital launched a pathbreaking effort to cut medical costs by reducing hospital stays and emergency room visits by the frail elderly - an initiative that underscores just how hard it will be for the medical industry to make good on its promise to President Obama to pare healthcare spending by $2 trillion over the next decade.

The new Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care in Danvers will provide day surgery, cancer treatments, routine check-ups, and other medical services at the 122,000-square-foot building on Endicott Street, just off Route 128.

Dr. Ed Bromfield, a physician who founded the epilepsy program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and who was just as well known for teaching students and colleagues how to balance family, work, and hobbies as he was for showing them how to be better doctors, died May 10 at his Newton home. He was 58.

In Saturday's Globe:

Julie Norton was 29 years old and making plans with her new husband, Michael, when she was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer. Because cancer treatment would almost certainly harm her ability to bear children, the newlyweds decided to freeze several embryos first. But two days before the embryos were due to be implanted in a surrogate at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Nortons received shocking news: Brigham had destroyed all 13 of the couple's embryos.

The long-anticipated healthcare overhaul has begun to take shape, with key congressional committees signaling growing interest in requiring virtually all Americans to have insurance, in providing subsidies or tax credits to help low- and middle-income people afford coverage, and in creating an online "exchange" to help people compare and purchase insurance plans in their area.