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The year in medicine

Broadcast: Midmorning, 01/04/2007, 10:06 a.m.
Broadcast: Midmorning, 01/04/2007, 10:06 a.m.

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Midmorning looks at some of the big medical issues of 2006, from a new vaccine for cervical cancer to the ban on trans fats and the continuing search for affordable health care.

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  • Jonathan Ravdin, MD: Nesbitt Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
  • Susan Wolf: McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota and chair of the University's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences.

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