Today's Globe: global vision, RI Hospital fine, arrest at MGH, health-care bill cost, swine flu vaccine potency, ex-Genzyme exec

Elizabeth Sheehan has spent a long time working among the world’s poorest people. Now she has an ambitious but simple plan to help the worst off.

State health officials have fined Rhode Island Hospital $150,000 and ordered it to install video cameras in its operating rooms after it reported its fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007 (fourth item).

Only weeks after two incidents involving Massachusetts General Hospital left one person dead and one seriously injured, a third episode occurred Sunday when a Level 3 sex offender was arrested at the hospital, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this week would cost $1.2 trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained in an analysis by congressional budget analysts, far higher than the $900 billion cited by President Obama as a price tag for his reform plan.

Pregnant women need only one dose of vaccine to protect them from the swine flu, according to government data released yesterday that confirm what officials have been recommending.

Former Genzyme Corp. senior executive Mara Aspinall has taken the helm of a new cancer diagnostics business, On-Q-ity Inc.