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[...] the president has chronic tendinitis in his left knee area, occasionally takes a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug for that condition and needs a modified exercise regimen, including a lower leg muscle strengthening program, Dr. Kuhlman's report said. Mr. Obama showed no evidence of heart disease from an electrocardiogram and a test known as an electron beam CT scan that looks for calcified areas in coronary arteries that may be evidence of coronary artery disease

[...] his advanced age and Mr. Christie's election had prompted an effort by Democrats to pass legislation that would have prevented the governor from appointing a Republican to the Senate -- whether by specifically requiring him to choose a Democrat or by keeping the seat vacant until a special election could be held

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.'

In July 1944, Frank H. Lahey, a surgeon in Boston, consulted in [Franklin D. Roosevelt]'s case. In a memorandum to the record that was made public largely through Dr. [Harry S. Goldsmith]'s efforts, Lahey said he told Roosevelt's White House physician, Adm. Ross T. McIntire, that 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, Dr. [Steven Lomazow] said, 'it fell upon' [Howard G. Bruenn] to protect Roosevelt's wishes to keep his health problems secret. A British physician, Hugh L'Etang, was about to publish a paper suggesting that Roosevelt might have had melanoma, Dr. Lomazow said. Also, he said, the Roosevelt family wanted Bruenn's cooperation in documenting that the president had been mentally capable during the Allies' end-of-war conference at Yalta in February 1945. During the Cold War, detractors had taken to calling him 'the sick man at Yalta' and said that Stalin had taken advantage of him

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

After serving in the Navy in World War II, Dr. Krebs returned to St. Louis intending to practice in an academic setting. Because there was a two-year waiting period for further medical training, he worked in biochemistry with Carl F. Cori and Gerty T. Cori, a husband-and-wife team who won a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their research on carbohydrate metabolism and enzymes

'Walt Stamm was a giant in the field of infectious diseases in general and made many seminal clinical research contributions over decades that have transformed the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections and pelvic inflammatory disease,' said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a federal agency that paid for many of Dr. Stamm's studies.

'Walt Stamm was a giant in the field of infectious diseases in general and made many seminal clinical research contributions over decades that have transformed the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections and pelvic inflammatory disease,' said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a federal agency that paid for many of Dr. Stamm's studies

With these deadly brain cancers in particular, the disease remains poorly understood. [...] even though many patients -- like Mr. Kennedy, who sought treatment at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina -- travel in search of cutting-edge care, there is a limited repertoire of treatments that have been shown to help.