Tuesday March 9, 2010

  The Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedert can now use a special genetic test to help would-be parents avoid passing on a recessive kidney diseases to their offspring. We meet one mother "" and baby "" who benefitted from pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Then, filmmaker Donald Tayloe explores the plight of the remaining elephants in Thailand in his new documentary. Poet Larry Watson explains "Everything That Is Wrong with America." And Chicago novelist Libby Hellmann tries to separate her own personality from the detective she's created, who reappears in her new book Doubleback.