The year in medicine

2008 saw some major medical advances, a few setbacks, and a new urgency for health care reform. Midmorning looks at the good and the bad from the past year in the world of medicine.

Guests

• Sydney Spiesel, MD: Pediatrician in Woodbridge, Conn., and a clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale University's School of Medicine. He contributes to Slate.com's Medical Examiner column.

More from MPR

• U of M creates first beating heart organ
  January 13, 2008

Resources

• Slate articles by Sydney Spiesel