Today's Globe

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said yesterday that the board of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center should do “some soul-searching’’ about chief executive Paul Levy’s ability to continue leading the hospital, after her office concluded that his longtime personal relationship with a female employee “clearly endangered the reputation of the institution and its management.’’

Middleborough faces the threat of mosquito-born illnesses with an added dose of reality after a local man contracted the Eastern equine encephalitis virus last week.

Pfizer Inc. has agreed to buy closely held FoldRx Pharmaceuticals Inc. as it looks to expand into medicines for rare disorders. FoldRx, of Cambridge, is focused on developing treatments for conditions caused by the improper folding of proteins.

Genzyme Corp. has told a society of cardiologists that tests of its potential cholesterol drug, mipomersen, have yielded encouraging results. Cambridge-based Genzyme is collaborating on mipomersen with Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Carlsbad, Calif.

Chelsea is getting nearly $2 million in federal stimulus money to reduce pollution from diesel exhaust and to improve public health (sixth item).

Defying the odds after breaking her hip and setting aside her preference for privacy, Angie Scardino allowed a Globe reporter and photographer to chronicle, in an award-winning series, her months of treatment and recovery and her struggle to regain independence. Mrs. Scardino, who most recently lived with her daughter in Franklin, but always thought of the house she and her late husband bought in Scotia, N.Y., as her home, died of congestive heart failure Friday at Beth Israel. She was 86.

Andrea Larkin lounges on her black leather armchair, dubbed her “throne,’’ with her iPhone glued to her right hand. On her lap, 2-year-old Alexa Grace sits watching Dora the Explorer on her iTouch — a gift for her second birthday. For Larkin, moments like these seem like miracles. Seventeen hours after Alexa’s birth, Larkin, then a 28-year-old marathon runner and fitness trainer, suffered a massive stroke that nearly ended her life, and then her dream of motherhood.

Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and whether it is resistant to the main drug for treating it.

Editors of a top medical journal call Meridia “another flawed diet pill’’ and question whether it should stay on the market as a study shows it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart problems.

As they become more popular, the battery-powered cigarettes have become the center of a fight over how risky they are compared with traditional smokes, whether they are legal and, if they are, how they should be regulated.

Millions of free malaria drugs are sent to Africa every year by international donors. New research is now providing evidence for what health workers have long suspected: Some of the donated medication is being stolen and resold on commercial markets.