Sound Medicine: July 15, 2007

Side Effects Public Media

Published July 15, 2007 at 11:59 AM EDT

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Topics for this week's show include: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus; Medical "Magnet School" in Indy; Health Quiz: Shakespeare and Brain Activity; Rural Health Clinics; Poverty & HIV/AIDS in Kenya; Checkup: Too Much Exercise?; Selecting for Genetic Defects; Alien Abductions

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