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U of M researcher Doris Taylor points to a pig heart that has been flushed of its cells. The framework that remains can be infused with cells that regrow the heart. (MPR Photo/Lorna Benson)

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The year in medicine

Broadcast: Midmorning, 01/05/2009, 10:06 a.m.

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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.

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  • 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.

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