Health

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Tuesday that three of four people who received organs from a car crash victim have become infected with the West Nile virus -- possibly through the donated organs.

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Susan Dentzer reports on the recovery of two women who were seriously burned during the attack on the World Trade Center.

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Jonathan Silvers reports on the bleak prospects for families of AIDS victims in the African country of Malawi.

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Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television reports on U.S.-trained foreign doctors and the countries they've left behind.

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Susan Dentzer looks at the causes of spina bifida and efforts to prevent the disease by encouraging women to take more folic acid.

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Godfrey P. Oakley, Jr., is a visiting professor of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. He is the former director of the division of Birth Defects and Development of Disabilities at the Center for Disease…

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Dr. Victor Klein is an OB/GYN with special training in high-risk pregnancies at North Shore University Hospital in New York. Below is the transcript of Susan Dentzer's interview with him.

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Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on a battle over contraception in the Pacific Northwest.

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Experts discuss new regulations announced by the Bush administration to govern the privacy of medical records.

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An update on the West Nile Virus, which has caused five deaths in Louisiana this year. The director of the CDC and the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health discuss the latest news on the virus.

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