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Tom Keefe used to be a hospital executive. Now he runs a charity that collects used medical equipment and furniture in the US and sends it to hospitals and clinics overseas. International Medical Equipment Collaborative is based in Rollinsford and is only a few years old, but it's bringing help and hope to poor areas around the world. www.imecamerica.org

The Veterens Affairs Department has a national center for ethics in White River Junction, VT. That's where Paul Reitemeier works. He's a medical ethicist who provides guidance on ethical issues for veterens' hospitals accross the country. For him, it's a way to combine his two main interests: medicine and philosophy.

Normal weight adults are now a minority in the US and childhood obesity is at an all time high. The Surgeon General says being overweight is not just a personal issue, it's a pressing public health problem. Laura's guest is Margo Wootan, Director of
Nutrition Policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group based in Washington DC www.cspinet.org.

The state must take some 45 people with brain injuries and other disabilities off a waiting list, and provide them help to live at home. That was the decision handed down thursday by a federal judge in a class-action lawsuit against the state. NHPR?s Trish Anderton reports.

These days it seems we can't open the paper without news of another anthrax scare. The crisis is new to most of us. But for women and men who work in family planning and women's health clinics, anthrax threats are a regular occurance. Just last week the U.S. Justice Department announced it has identified Clayton Lee Waagner as responsible for hundreds of anthrax scares at women's clinics, including three in New Hampshire. But as NHPR's Dan Gorenstein reports, state and federal officials have ignorned people who have been targets longer than anyone else in the nation.