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Reports on the Australian government's inquiry into the use of pituitary-derived hormones and their link with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Lawsuit filed by people who received the hormones against the government and the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories for contracting CJD; Government's report on the relationship between doctors prescribing human growth hormones and their patients.

Probes the compensation packages being offered by the Australian government to recipients of human pituitary hormones. The result of the recipients' knowledge that they have a greater chance of developing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; The variety of people that received the hormones as part of the Australian Human Pituitary Hormone Program (AHPHP); Details on the compensation packages.

Presents medical news briefs for November 1996. The drop in the percentage of AIDS-related deaths in Australia in 1995; Report from United States scientists that smoking may more than quadruple the risk of a subset of postmenopausal women developing breast cancer.