HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 3 -- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * - Former Cancer Medicine leader leaves a high-impact legacy for cancer patients, physicians * * * Waun Ki Hong, M.D., a trail-blazing physician-scientist and mentor whose clinical research innovations led to successful organ-sparing cancer treatment, advanced the field of targeted therapy and launched chemoprevention, died Wednesday at his home in California. Hong, 76, retire  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 -- The National Health Law Program issued the following news release: * * * - Dr. Britt, Henry Ford Professor & Edward J. Brickhouse Chairman, Department of Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Recognized as One of the Nation's Leading Doctors, and the first African-American to Hold an Endowed Chair in Surgery * * * One of the nation's top physicians and nationally honored professors in medicine is joining the National Health Law Program's Board of Directors, bringi  more