Dr. Hallberg's top 6 health stories of the year
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Dr. Jon Hallberg, All Things Considered's regular medical analyst and a physician in family medicine at the University of Minnesota, counts down his top 6 most important and intriguing health stories of the past year:
1. Affordable Care Act healthcare exchange roll-out and all the glitches
2. The return of plague, polio and rickets
3. E-cigarettes: Are they harmful?
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4. New blood pressure guidelines
6. First real update to the classification of mental health disorders since 1994
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