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PHOTO; VISITING A VETERAN: President [Bush] hugs Molly Sloan, mother of Marine Capt. Stephen 'Kyle' Sloan, on Saturday at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Sloan was injured in Iraq. Bush awarded seven Purple Hearts at the hospital. Getty Images photo/ Eric Draper, The White House

About 1947, the Medical Research Council, the British equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, asked Sir Austin, a professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene, to investigate the causes of lung cancer. Sir [Austin Bradford Hill], who was not a medical doctor. asked Sir Richard to join him. Initially, Sir Richard said that he and most other physicians did not see a link between cigarettes and lung cancer. In fact, Sir Richard said in an interview with this reporter that at first he suspected that the tar used to pave the growing number of roads, or possibly automobile exhaust, were at the root of the lung cancer epidemic. Sir [Harold Himsworth], a physician, was also concerned because the findings were so critically important and unexpected. He demanded that Sir Austin and Sir Richard confirm them in studies elsewhere in England. They did

On April 5, 1951, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Dennis performed the world's first open-heart operation to be done with a heart-lung bypass machine. The apparatus worked well, but the patient, a six-year-old girl, died because her heart defect, far more complicated than the surgical team had realized, was beyond any repair then possible. In 1945, when Dennis began his research into such an apparatus, surgeons' ability to repair a damaged heart was very limited. Given its dangers, the leading surgeons of the late 19th century had virtually banned efforts at heart surgery. Yet along the way, a few defiant leaders repaired certain types of heart defects in procedures that, Dennis said, 'fired the imaginations of surgeons.'

Indonesian and W.H.O. epidemiologists are trying to determine the original source of infection with the A(H5N1) strain of avian influenza virus. Though it is possible that one family member gave the virus to the others, the source of the first case is not known, the officials said. No one in the family reported any contact with poultry. The World Health Organization, a United Nations agency, has been warning about the potential of the A(H5N1) virus to mutate into a lethal new virus that could cause an epidemic. The deaths of more than 200 million birds in Asia have been attributed to the A(H5N1) virus directly or from culling to prevent its spread, the United Nations has said. Yesterday, news agencies reported that the Indonesian health minister, Siti Fadillah Supari, said lab tests performed in Indonesia and a lab in Hong Kong had confirmed that all three family members had A(H5N1) avian influenza

Dr. Dennis trained hundreds of surgeons at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and at SUNY-Stony Brook. But his career followed a roller-coaster course shared by many other medical researchers whose initial visions turned to failure before being realized. Dr. Dennis would later say that two cardiologists had helped sway him in his decision to move to Brooklyn, by promising to refer more than 160 heart patients in need of surgery. But once at Downstate, he said, both doctors reneged. Though he never understood the reason, he said, the fact is that beyond the experimental nature of the surgery, many doctors feared losing their own patients by referring them to others. It was a time when cardiologists did not work as closely with heart surgeons as they do now. A platinum blond, Dr. Dennis maintained a youthful appearance well into his later years. His second wife, the former Mary Steinhilper, recalled that on one occasion he had to win over the confidence of a woman who initially refused to let him operate on her son because she thought that Dr. Dennis, then a full professor, was an intern

The effort began in 2000, amid concern that peacekeepers could be helping to spread H.I.V. in countries they were assigned to or after coming back home. The United Nations Security Council declared AIDS a threat to the political and economic stability of many countries and mandated inclusion of H.I.V. prevention programs in peacekeeping missions. The officials said they had introduced AIDS education and training programs in all peacekeeping missions and were offering H.I.V. tests, promoting use of condoms, and distributing information kits to troops. Many among the 105 countries that provide uniformed troops to the peacekeeping missions still have a long way to go to meet the Security Council's goal for education and prevention programs, the officials said. The missions involve more than 66,000 frequently rotated uniformed personnel and more than 13,000 international and national civilians serving in 17 peacekeeping and related field operations.''AIDS is still not part of the core military business everywhere,'' Dr. Peter Piot, the director of the United Nations AIDS program, said in providing the Security Council with a progress report. Most United Nations peacekeeping efforts depend on troops from low- or middle-income countries. Though the number of peacekeepers is tiny compared with the hundreds of millions of people at risk of becoming infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, many of those countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, with the world's highest rates of H.I.V. infection

[William H. Rehnquist]'s announcement last year that he had thyroid cancer has led to wide speculation that he might step down from the court. That speculation intensified this month as the court's term ended and President Bush began searching for a replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. [Scott McClellan] said that he and Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, learned that Rehnquist had been taken to the hospital from news accounts following the official court announcement around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. They then passed on the information to Bush. The news of Rehnquist's hospitalization came a few hours after Bush, who started reviewing dossiers on potential candidates for the O'Connor seat last week, said that he was willing to consider nominees who are not judges

Chief Justice [William H. Rehnquist]'s announcement last year that he had thyroid cancer has led to wide speculation that he might leave the court. That speculation intensified this summer as the court's term ended and President Bush began searching for a replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The news of the chief justice's hospitalization can only complicate the White House's calculations on filling the O'Connor seat; the president began reviewing dossiers on potential candidates for that job last week. A few hours before the announcement about Chief Justice Rehnquist, Mr. Bush said he was willing to consider nominees who are not judges, leaving open the possibility that a senator or another government official might replace Justice O'Connor. Several senators have already recommended that Mr. Bush look beyond the existing stable of federal and state judges in order to bring someone with real-world experience and political savvy to the bench. Most of the non-judicial candidates mentioned in recent days have been sitting Republican senators, among them Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Michael D. Crapo of Idaho, John Cornyn of Texas, Orrin G. Hatch of Utah and Mike DeWine of Ohio. Another often-mentioned candidate, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, was formerly a judge

On Friday, rumors of an imminent retirement announcement by Chief Justice [William H. Rehnquist] reached a frenzy of bizarre proportions. He was first said to have informed the White House that he would announce his retirement on Monday. The rescheduling from Monday until Tuesday of a meeting between the president and the Senate leadership was taken as proof of the chief justice's intention; in fact, the change was made to accommodate the schedule of Senator Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, the majority leader. Dr. Leonard Wartofsky, chairman of the department of medicine at Washington Hospital Center, said in an interview that he was ''surprised Mr. Rehnquist has done so well.'' Dr. Wartofsky, a thyroid cancer specialist, said the chief justice's case was ''a big topic'' among thyroid experts. ''It's on people's minds'' and ''we talk,'' he said. Another specialist, who had spoken to the chief justice's own doctors, said they were ''very, very pleased about his course and that he is so on the ball.'' Anaplastic thyroid cancer is rare, and Dr. Steven I. Sherman, chairman of the endocrine cancer department at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, cautioned against jumping to the conclusion that this was the chief justice's diagnosis. ''More likely it was not anaplastic thyroid cancer, just by the relative frequency of the other'' types of the disease, Dr. Sherman said

Chief Justice [William Rehnquist] leaves his home in Arlington, Va., on Friday. Rehnquist remained at work in his chambers at the court Friday, as he has every day since the court finished its term and began its summer recess. J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS