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In Monday's Globe

Newly installed Medicare chief Donald Berwick, keeping a low public profile after encountering controversy over his appointment, is moving quickly behind the scenes to seed the US health care system with 100 to 300 sites to test new models of caring for patients.

Frank C. Garland, an epidemiologist whose work helped establish a link between vitamin D deficiency and some cancers, including colon and breast cancer, died on Aug. 17 in the La Jolla section of San Diego. He was 60 and lived in San Diego.

In the Sunday Globe

As a social worker who provided hospice care, Leo Smith helped others take the often difficult steps near the end of life, before he found himself on the same path. Mr. Smith, who spent more than 23 years with Caritas Good Samaritan Hospice, the last 16 as executive director, died of cancer July 11 in his apartment in Dorchester. He was 58.

In Saturday's Globe

As 3-D technology has become a routine part of the moviegoing experience — and spreads to TV and video games — some consumers are wondering whether staring through those glasses for hours could be harmful.

Dr. Guido Majno, a leading pathologist who shaped the pathology department at the fledgling University of Massachusetts Medical School in the 1970s, died from complications of Parkinson’s disease May 27 in a hospital in the suburbs of Geneva, where he lived. He was 88.

"When soldiers become addicted to painkillers that a doctor has prescribed for their injuries, the military should pay for any medical therapy needed to treat the addiction," a Globe editorial says.