In case you missed it

In Monday's Globe:

Faced with the possibility that Republican Scott Brown could win tomorrow’s US Senate election, Democrats in Washington are discussing with great urgency how they could keep his vote from scuttling comprehensive health care legislation, President Obama’s top domestic priority.

"The availability of primary care doctors is not only crucial to public health, but essential for reining in the nation’s skyrocketing medical costs," a Globe editorial says. "Congress should address this gap in the health care system, but not superficially. Federal funding for new residency slots should follow reforms that address the underlying reasons - principally money - that lead doctors to choose to specialize."


In the Sunday Globe:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - “That’s it? Nothing more?’’ Dr. Mark Hyman, a physician from Lenox, Mass., asked a group of aid workers at Haiti’s largest hospital yesterday, holding up a small jug of alcohol as a badly injured woman lay on the operating table behind him.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Three days after being summoned to treat Haiti’s broken and battered, and 24 hours after landing, medical rapid response teams from Massachusetts had not treated a single patient yesterday.

In Saturday's Globe:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - For one more night, they must wait before they can begin their mission in this earthquake-shattered city: to ease suffering, to save lives.

Racial and ethnic minorities in Massachusetts have been hospitalized and died of swine flu at an elevated rate, underscoring the need for people to continue be vaccinated since there is now ample supply of vaccine, state officials said yesterday.

College classmates called Dr. James C. Dangel a “word worshiper,’’ and colleagues at MetroWest Medical Center’s hospital in Framingham coined the term “Dangelisms’’ for his literary explanations woven into scientific prose. Dr. Dangel, a retired cardiologist, died of a stroke Jan. 3 in the intensive care unit he helped to establish at MetroWest Medical Center. The Sudbury resident was 70.

Harrison Ford is the brilliant scientist; Brendan Fraser, the father desperately trying to save his children from an incurable disease. And Zymagen is the biotechnology company that swoops in at the right moment. The Hollywood movie “Extraordinary Measures’’ opens Friday, and it’s based loosely on a true story that took place more than a decade ago at Genzyme Corp. in Cambridge. But like many “inspired by’’ films, this tale has a back story not found on the silver screen.