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Untangling Results of Women's Health Study
March 1, 2006 Fifteen years and 160,000 women later, the Women's Health Initiative completes its research and assesses results. Guests review the most definitive study yet on older women's health.
A Hunt for Life-Saving Lessons from a Grim Past

February 20, 2006 The great flu pandemic of 1918 killed 50 million people -- more than any other disease outbreak in the history of the world. John Oxford, a prominent British professor, wants to know why the disease was so deadly -- and what the current generation needs to rise to the challenge of a global epidemic.
What's Behind Bird Flu: The Chicken or the Duck?

February 16, 2006 Health officials say migratory waterfowl like ducks and geese are spreading the H5N1 bird flu virus from Asia to Europe and Africa. Bird experts aren't so sure; they point to an illegal trade in infected poultry.
