Photo: #Children suffering cholera symptoms rest at the hospital in Grande-Saline, Haiti, Saturday Oct. 23, 2010. A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince. Health officials said at least 208 people had died.
Photo: #President Barack Obama signs the heath care hill, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
Photo: #Dr. Jon Hallberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Medical Director at the University of Minnesota. He is a regular medical analyst on MPR's All Things Considered.
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Children suffering cholera symptoms rest at the hospital in Grande-Saline, Haiti, Saturday Oct. 23, 2010. A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince. Health officials said at least 208 people had died. (Ramon Espinosa/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Top 10 medical stories of 2010

by Tom Crann, Minnesota Public Radio,
Dr. Jon Hallberg, Minnesota Public Radio
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On this last day of 2010, MPR's Tom Crann sat down with Dr. Jon Hallberg to take a look back at the big medical stories of the year, including cholera in Haiti, health care reform legislation and a explosion of pertussis cases.

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