Each new decade brings about great advances in modern medicine. But they also bring unique problems that cannot be solved in the lab. Public health scientist Michael Osterholm compares it to a swimmer trying to travel upstream. Growing world populations, unstable governments, and a new low in vaccine usage due to a growing anti-science sentiment are all issues that need to be addressed, lest progress be taken away by the current.

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Original Program Date: June 2, 2012

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