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A recent survey shows the state's two dozen community hospitals are being squeezed between rising health care costs and declining federal payments for Medicare patients.

December 1st is World Aids Day. In the U.S., about 40,000 people each year discover they are infected with the virus. The rate of infection is growing fastest among heterosexual women.

With only two major HMO's left in the state, employers and consumers are feeling squeezed by fewer choices and higher prices. But the industry says a small market combined with rising medical costs makes it hard to stay afloat. Laura talks with Clark Dumont, head of corporate communications for Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of NH and Dawn Touzin, with NH Citizens Alliance.

Doctors and other health care workers across the state now have a way to help their patients get on top of potential asthma attacks before they occur.

Generations after Freud, lay people and practitioners alike still question how effective various psychotherapy approaches are in helping those with mental and emotional problems. We'll get an overview and critique of the field from Dr. Paul McHugh, head of psychiatry of Johns Hopkins University, considered one of the country's top medical research centers. Laura Knoy is host.