Dr. Bernadine P. Healy, Influential Health Administrator, Dies at 67

Monday, August 8, 2011 - 14:10 in Health & Medicine

Dr. Healy, the first woman to run the National Institutes of Health and a president of the American Red Cross, helped overturn assumptions that heart disease was mainly just a male problem.

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