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Daily Rounds: Hazardous AIDS Cure; Appeal of Obamacare Ruling; Critics Eye Mass. Law; Malaria Deaths; $71M Tobacco Verdict
"Researchers report possible HIV infection cure; others cite dangers - CNN.com Researchers in Germany are reporting that they may have cured a man of HIV infection. If true, that would represent a scientific advance, but not necessarily a treatment advance, said researchers familiar with the work." (CNN)
U.S. to Appeal Health Ruling - WSJ.com "The Justice Department said it would appeal a decision invalidating a core provision of the federal health-care overhaul, the next skirmish in a constitutional struggle likely to reach the Supreme Court before the 2012 presidential election." (Wall Street Journal) Critics eye Mass. Health after Obamacare ruling - BostonHerald.com
Cigarette Firm Found Liable For $71M In Smoker’s Death | Hubbub | Blogs | WBUR "A Boston jury has found a cigarette maker liable for $71 million in a suit alleging the company targeted black children in Roxbury in the 1950s and ’60s.
The plaintiffs had showed jurors a video deposition of Marie Evans, recorded before she died eight years ago from lung cancer. Evans blamed Lorillard, Inc., for getting her and other children in the neighborhood addicted to Newport cigarettes." (hubbub.wbur.org)
This program aired on December 15, 2010. The audio for this program is not available.