Absolute Smoothies

Doctors must use pads with at least one security feature by next month and three features by Oct. 1.

A firm hired by health plans to limit imaging is issuing radiation-exposure estimates for CT scans. Some worry patients will avoid the tests.

Doctors object to a funding provision that would ban physician referrals to hospitals in which they have an ownership stake.

Physicians pledge to fight the measure as it heads to the state House. But trial lawyers support it.

Paid endorsements pose conflicts, some physicians and ethicists say.