Week of December 13, 2006

BBC News Online

Video: Worries Over Stem Cell Clinics
Matthew Hill
Dec. 12, 2006
"Healthy newborn babies in the Ukraine may have been killed to supply the growing demand for unproven stem cell treatment. A BBC investigation has apparently found evidence from clinics which are mostly unregulated." (Related story) (Running time: 7:27)

CBS Evening News

Video: 'Fingerprint' for Alzheimer's
Dr. Jon LaPook
Dec. 12, 2006
"Protein patterns found in spinal fluid may help detect Alzheimer's disease, which currently can be confirmed only with a brain autopsy." (Running time: 3:11)

Video: Flu Season, 90 Years Apart
Russ Mitchell
Dec. 10, 2006
"Scientists are rushing to find as many survivors as possible of the 1918 flu epidemic to learn more about their immunity and, hopefully, help future flu sufferers." (Running time: 2:34)

Week of December 6, 2006

National Public Radio

Audio: Take When Wet -- Labels May Add to Medicine Errors
Allison Aubrey
Dec. 7, 2006
"In an ideal world, doctors would write prescriptions in neat handwriting that everyone could read. And pharmacists would give precise directions about taking medicines. But 61-year-old Buddy Landry of Shreveport, La., has learned that it's important to ask for clarification when prescriptions are unclear." (Running time: 5:03)

Audio: Researchers Debate Potential Path of Bird Flu
Richard Knox
Dec. 5, 2006
"Many experts predicted the bird flu would spread to North America this year. But the virus, which has already migrated from Southeast Asia to three other continents since 2003, has not yet reached the United States. Some scientists now say it's not likely to happen the way many expected --- through wild migratory birds --- but instead through the global trade in live poultry." (Running time: 3:42)

CNN

Video: Many Missing After Mudslides
John Vause
Dec. 4, 2006
"Another typhoon brings death and destruction to the Philippines." (Running time: 1:38)

Video: China Opens HIV Testing Clinic
Jaime Florcruz
Dec. 2, 2006
"China has opened it's first free clinic for HIV testing." (Running time: 2:30)

BBC News

Photo Slideshow : Philippine Mudslides
Dec. 3, 2006
"Relief efforts are continuing in the southern Philippines after mudslides left hundreds of people dead or missing."

CBS News: 60 Minutes

Video: Surviving Genocide
Bob Simon
Dec. 3, 2006
"Bob Simon discusses the story of Immaculee Ilibagiza, a Tutsi woman who survived Rwanda's genocide by the Hutus in 1994." (Running time: 13:07)

The New York Times

Multimedia Slideshow: Sex Abuse of Girls in Africa
Sharon LaFraniere
Dec. 1, 2006
"Sharon LaFraniere investigates a stubborn scourge. Plus, reports on children as slaves, laborers, war victims and AIDS patients."