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Medical Research: Understanding the Headlines

By Allison McNair on Thursday, July 25, 2002.

Newly raised questions about hormone replacement therapy, mammograms, and a common knee surgery are raising concerns over what we can believe when it comes to our health. We'll look at how average consumers can navigate the headlines and understand what all the research really means. Allison is joined by Dr. Drummond Rennie, deputy editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association http://jama.ama-assn.org, and Dr. Virginia Hood, Professor of medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine www.med.uvm.edu.

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