Today's Globe: swine fu mystery, HIV rates, anti-smoking bill, drug firm deal, health data rights, Wyeth suit

The only person known to have died of swine flu in Massachusetts suffered from none of the underlying medical conditions that can turn a relatively mild viral infection into a life-threatening illness, city disease trackers disclosed yesterday.

A new Internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the United States and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South.

President Obama cited his own long struggle to quit the cigarettes he got hooked on as a teenager as he signed the strongest-ever US anti-smoking bill yesterday and praised it for providing critically needed protections for kids.

President Obama yesterday welcomed the pharmaceutical industry’s agreement to help close a gap in Medicare’s drug coverage, calling the pact a step forward in the push for overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system.

More than 30 bloggers from the medical, technology, and patient advocacy worlds are rallying to support patients’ right to obtain copies of their computerized health records from their doctors in the electronic format.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has filed a complaint in federal court alleging drug manufacturer Wyeth failed to give the government required discounts.