Sound Medicine March 4, 2012

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Published March 4, 2012 at 12:00 AM EST

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/030412_full.mp3

This week, identifying developmental problems in kids; treating cancer in Kenya; sustainable global health programs; essential tremor; and the ups and downs of emergency medicine.

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