Today's Globe: Mission Hill medical plan, Kennedy 'fine,' swine flu vaccine, John C. Nemiah, Leonard Shlain

The Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Mission Hill would be demolished and in its place Brigham and Women's Hospital would build a residential and medical complex on some of the last underdeveloped land in the Longwood Medical Area.

A year after his diagnosis with a malignant brain tumor, Senator Edward M. Kennedy is "doing fine," the Senate's top Democrat said yesterday, and Kennedy's colleagues say he is eager to push ahead with a sweeping healthcare package he has spent most of his 47-year career seeking.

The World Health Organization urged drugmakers to reserve some of their pandemic swine flu vaccine for poor countries, but received few concrete offers yesterday as specialists disclosed that an effective flu shot is months away.

Dr. John C. Nemiah, former editor of The American Journal of Psychiatry and a former professor at Harvard and Dartmouth medical schools, died of kidney failure May 11 in The Huntington at Nashua, a retirement community in the New Hampshire city. He was 90 and had previously lived in Hanover, N.H.

Dr. Leonard Shlain, a San Francisco surgeon who was a pioneer in the use of laparoscopic surgery and later wrote three best-selling books combining anthropology, science, and art, died May 11 in San Francisco. He was 71 and had been battling brain cancer for two years.