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Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, 90 (1918 - 2008)
DETROIT - Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz. In 1967, Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States, three days after the...
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Florence Wald, 91 (1917 - 2008)
Hartford, Conn. - Florence Wald, a former Yale nursing dean whose interest in compassionate care led her to launch the first U.S. hospice program, has died. She was 91. Her daughter, Shari Vogler, said Saturday that Wald died Nov. 8 of natural causes at her Branford home. A hospice volunteer was by her side to the end, Vogler said. Wald was dean of the Yale University School of...
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Dr. Ronald Davis (2008)
CHICAGO - Dr. Ronald Davis, a longtime public health and anti-tobacco advocate who served as president of the American Medical Association, died Thursday. He was 52. Davis died at his home near East Lansing, Mich., the AMA said. He had pancreatic cancer. During a speech at the AMA's annual meeting in Chicago in June, Davis urged his fellow doctors to raise awareness about pancreatic...
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Dr. Thomas H. Weller, 93 (1915 - 2008)
BOSTON - Dr. Thomas H. Weller, a Harvard professor whose research on the polio virus earned him and two others a Nobel prize in 1954, has died. He was 93. Weller died in his sleep Saturday at his home in Needham, his son said. He and two Children's Hospital colleagues, John F. Enders and Frederick C. Robbins, shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of a way to grow the...
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Dr. Charles F. Whitten, 86 (1922 - 2008)
DETROIT - Dr. Charles F. Whitten, a physician, professor and specialist in sickle cell disease, died Aug. 14. He was 86. Whitten died of complications from multiple myeloma at his home in Detroit, the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America said. Born in Wilmington, Del., Whitten earned a degree in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his medical degree at Meharry...
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Eva Reich (2008)
HANCOCK, Maine - Dr. Eva Reich, daughter of Dr. Wilhelm Reich and lecturer on the controversial work on orgonomy that he pioneered more than a half century ago, has died. She was 84. Reich died...
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Dr. Joan Hodgman (2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Dr. Joan Hodgman, a pediatrician who pioneered guidelines for newborn care, died Aug. 10 of what is known as Lou Gehrig's disease. She was 84. Hodgman died at a family cabin in...
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Dr. Michael DeBakey (2008)
HOUSTON - Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died....
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Dr. Michael B. Gregg, 78 (1930 - 2008)
Dr. Michael B. Gregg, a retired epidemiologist from Guilford credited with transforming a publication of the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into one of the nation's leading...
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Dr. Jesse Edwards (2008)
Dr. Jesse E. Edwards, a cardiologist who established one of the world's largest collections of hearts to help the study of heart disease, died Sunday of heart failure, his daughter said. He was 96...
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Dr. Joshua Lederberg, 82 (1925 - 2008)
Joshua Lederberg, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes, advised nine U.S. presidents and wrote a weekly newspaper column, has died. He was 82. ...
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Dr. Robert Atkins, 72 (1930 - 2003)
Low-carbohydrate diet doctor Robert Atkins died Thursday after remaining in a coma and on life support for more than a week after suffering a severe head injury from a fall on an icy Manhattan...
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Dr. Benjamin Spock, 94 (1903 - 1998)
Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician whose common-sense theories of child care helped guide parents around the world during the last half-century, has died. He was 94. Spock died Sunday in San...
