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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com | February 11, 2010
Carl E. Taylor, the founder of the academic discipline of international health at what is now the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who devoted his life to the medical well-being of the world's marginalized people, died Feb. 4 at his Lake Roland-area home. He was 93. "Carl was a pioneer. He was quite special and a visionary," said Dr. Robert E. Black, who succeeded Dr. Taylor as chairman of the department. "He understood the concept of tropical medicine and the cross-cultural problems in developing countries," Dr. Black said.
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By Miriam Alexander | December 4, 2009
We at the American College of Preventive Medicine support the updated United States Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on breast cancer screening. On Nov. 17, the task force released recommendations that women age 50 and older should have screening mammography every two years, and women in their 40s should decide whether to have screening mammography on an individual basis after talking with their doctors. Since then, misinformation and conspiratorial rumors have been rampant, including allegations that the task force is a mechanism for government or insurance industry cost-cutting at the expense of women's health.
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By BRUCE JAPSEN and BRUCE JAPSEN,CHICAGO TRIBUNE | June 18, 2006
CHICAGO -- Amid a seemingly endless period of national and international public health crises, the American Medical Association turned to Dr. Ronald Davis for a key leadership role in the future of the nation's largest doctor group. A preventive medicine specialist from East Lansing, Mich., Davis was elected last week by the AMA's policymaking House of Delegates to serve as the organization's president-elect, a key part of a three-person team that speaks on behalf of the group on critical issues.
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By Bob Groves and Bob Groves,KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE | March 3, 2002
HACKENSACK, N.J. - Some women have immune cells that seem to protect them from the AIDS virus, despite prolonged unsafe sex with infected men, researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey said. The behavior of these cells, called lymphocytes, could be used to test the effectiveness of new vaccines against the disease, said Joan Skurnick, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of preventive medicine and community health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School in Newark.
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January 7, 2001
REMEMBER the adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"? That should be paramount in the minds of lawmakers and the governor as Maryland's General Assembly convenes Wednesday for its 90-day session. State leaders could take significant steps this year in four areas that would produce major dividends down the road. But it will take foresight and political courage. Gov. Parris N. Glendening has made it clear he intends to put much of the state's excess cash into bricks and mortar -- K-12 public school construction and a massive building binge on state college campuses.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen and Frederick N. Rasmussen,SUN STAFF | April 21, 2000
Dr. William S. Spicer Jr., an authority in the field of tuberculosis and respiratory diseases and a former professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died Sunday of cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 74. Dr. Spicer, a resident of the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County, had a career at the University of Maryland School of Medicine that spanned three decades until his retirement in 1984, when he became director of the medical residency program at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.