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Board of Directors News
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The Hereditary Disease Foundation is saddened by the death of HDF Lifetime Trustee and dear friend, William “Bill” Modell.
Read his obituary
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“HDF Director, Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber, and colleagues from Columbia
University bring attention to the possible psychiatric side effects of
experimental medicines. As a result, the Food and Drug Administration is now
requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal
during clinical trials.”
-Featured in the New York Times, January 24, 2008
Read the complete article
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| HDF Founder Milton
Wexler, psychoanalyst in Los Angeles for over fifty years,
beloved father of Alice and Nancy, died at home on March
16, 2007, at the age of ninety-eight. Click
here to read obituaries.
HDF Board of Director Herb Pardes,
President of New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System,
featured in January
7, 2007 New York Times article.
Carrie
Fisher Article, NY Times: "Comedic Postscripts From
The Edge", November 15, 2006.
Carrie
Fisher Article, Playbill: "Another Round: Carrie
Fisher's Wishful Drinking Extends Run in L.A.",
November 27, 2006.
HDF Board of Director
and friend Donald H. Fritts passed away at
his home in Bakersfield on Thursday, May 4, 2006. A former
publisher of The Bakersfield Californian, Don had been
ill with Huntington's disease for many years."
"Gentleman Publisher Dies" |
Thursday, May 4 2006
The Bakersfield Californian | Thursday, May 4 2006
The Bakersfield Californian | Friday, May 5 2006
Don Fritts' Obituary
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Architect Frank Gehry presented his design
for a new Alzheimer's research center in Las Vegas
- LAS
VEGAS (AP) - Architect Frank Gehry presented his design
for a new Alzheimer's research center in Las Vegas on
Saturday, unveiling an uneven stack of blocks anchoring
a swooping trellis made of Gehry's signature contorted
steel. (Las Vegas Sun, 11 Feb 2006) - [.pdf
version]
Architect
Frank Gehry spoke at SfN about how his work progresses
from ideas to finished buildings.
(BrainWork, November/December 2006) - [.pdf
version]
Architect
Frank Gehry's plan for a retail, residential and entertainment
complex: opportunities and challenges LOS
ANGELES (AP) Grand
Avenue Project (The New York Times, Sun, 1 Jan 2007) -
[.pdf version]
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Alden Blethen lived a full life despite ravages of disease
- When friends and family remember Alden "Buster" Blethen, they don't talk of
the man who was bedridden by a debilitating disease; they talk of the man who
lived life to the fullest, who bore no bitterness from the ravages of his
disease.
Mr. Blethen died Thursday from Huntington's disease, an inherited neurological
disorder. He was 55. ... |
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