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The authors point out that Turner Catledge, then a Washington correspondent for The New York Times and later its executive editor, did not report how awful Mr. Roosevelt looked during an interview at the White House in 1944, months before his nomination to an unprecedented fourth term. The speculation about a melanoma cannot be verified because there was no autopsy and no known biopsy, and most of Mr. Roosevelt's medical records disappeared shortly after his death from a safe in the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. In their public accounts and the few surviving medical records, his doctors never suggested that they performed a biopsy to determine whether he had any form of cancer.

In July 1944, Dr. Frank H. Lahey, a nationally prominent surgeon in Boston, consulted in [Franklin D. Roosevelt]'s case. In a memorandum to the record that was made public largely through [Harry S. Goldsmith]'s efforts, Lahey said he told Roosevelt's White House physician, Admiral Ross T. McIntire, he doubted Roosevelt's capacity to survive another term. But the memorandum did not mention cancer: It focused on the president's failing heart. After McIntire's death in 1959, [Steven Lomazow] said, 'it fell upon' [Howard G. Bruenn] to protect Roosevelt's wishes to keep his health problems secret. A British physician, Dr. Hugh L'Etang, was about to publish a paper suggesting Roosevelt might have had melanoma, Lomazow said. The authors say that, though it is unclear whether Roosevelt's doctors fully understood the nature of this postulated deficit, 'they certainly knew that the president's lesion was malignant and had metastasized.' The book says the abdominal pains Roosevelt experienced in his last year were 'caused by the cancer that had metastasized to his bowel.'

The authors point out that Turner Catledge, then a Washington correspondent for The New York Times and later its executive editor, did not report how awful Roosevelt looked during an interview at the White House in 1944, months before his nomination to an unprecedented fourth term. The speculation about a melanoma cannot be verified because there was no autopsy and no known biopsy, and most of Roosevelt's medical records disappeared shortly after his death from a safe in the United States Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md

President Barack Obama 'is in excellent health' and likely to remain able to carry out his duties for the rest of his term, his doctor said after completing Mr. Obama's first routine medical checkup since he took office last year. Mr. Obama, 48, continues to struggle to stop his 30-year smoking habit and needs to modify his diet, said Dr. [Jeffrey Kuhlman], a navy captain who led the medical team that performed Mr. Obama's physical Sunday. As for Mr. Obama's smoking, Mr. [Robert Gibbs] said the president had tried to quit but had 'admitted lapses.' It is not known how frequently Mr. Obama smokes, or what the figure is for his total 'pack years,' a standard measure of a smoker's risk for diseases like lung cancer

Over the years, Mr. Cheney has had angioplasty to unblock coronary arteries and stents to keep them open; an implanted pacemaker and defibrillator; surgery to repair aneurysms, or ballooning of arteries, behind both knees; and a number of visits to George Washington University Hospital for monitoring and observation, the last in June. In a statement issued on July 14, Mr. Cheney said that he 'was entering a new phase of the disease' with 'increasing congestive heart failure' and chose a pump to 'enable me to resume an active life.'

Borrowing a term from news reporting, E.I.S. detectives like to call themselves 'shoe-leather epidemiologists;' they also like to wear ties and lapel pins displaying their logo -- a hole in the well-worn sole of a shoe over a map of the world. Since its creation in 1951, the service has become a bulwark in the nation's defense system against disease, often acting as the public's emergency room

Since the Civil War, the White House medical staff has been drawn largely from the military. Staff members plan the president's annual physical, rescue guests choking on hors d'oeuvres at White House functions, help foreign leaders seek care in the United States or elsewhere, and plan emergency care should the president need it while traveling

Not only did the drugs help relieve angina pain, they also lowered death rates. [...] beta blockers are sometimes used to treat migraine headaches and anxiety, among other conditions

Dr. [James W. Black] started out working in academia, but in 1958 he went against the academic grain by moving to a drug company. 'One thing was clear at that time: Going into industry was a no-no,' he said in an interview in Molecular Interventions, a journal published by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in Bethesda, Maryland. 'If you were a good scientist, you didn't go into industry.' Jerry Adler, a harmonica virtuoso whose pure, open sound can be heard on the soundtracks to 'Shane,' 'High Noon,' 'Mary Poppins' and other films, but who labored in the shadow of his more famous harmonica-playing older brother, [Larry Adler], died on March 13 in Ellenton, Florida. He was 91 and lived in Sarasota. He was highly sought after as a soloist in films from the 1940s through the 1960s. His credits include the soundtracks for 'Shane,' 'High Noon,' 'The Alamo,' 'You Can't Take It With You,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'My Fair Lady.'

Known then as retrolental fibroplasia, it is now called retinopathy of prematurity, or R.O.P. The oxygen, he found, led to overgrowth of blood vessels in the eye, damaging the retina irreparably. After earning undergraduate and medical degrees from Emory University in Atlanta, Dr. Patz served in the ambulance corps during World War II, often transporting patients from Camp Lee, Va., to Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington