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In Big Easy, Health Care Still a Challenge

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When Hurricane Katrina hit, the damage to New Orleans devastated the city’s health care system. The Takeaway talks to Karen DeSalvo of the Tulane School of Medicine and Patricia Berryhill, clinical director of the Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic.

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The Very Model of Modern Major Health Care System

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The Cost of Health Care: A Doctor’s Diagnosis

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Crisis in eastern Congo

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Medical care for Rio’s poor

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Getting back to healing in Kenya

Health & Medicine

Correspondent Sheri Fink reports that health workers in Kenya are looking for ways to get back to healing after weeks of violence and mistrust among the country’s various ethnic groups.

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