1. Ronald Davis, 52, Health Crusader, Dies.
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McFadden, Robert D.
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PANCREATIC cancer diagnosis - Abstract
Dr. Ronald M. Davis, a former president of the American Medical Association who campaigned against tobacco, alcohol, obesity, illicit drugs and unhealthy lifestyles in his career as a public health official, died Thursday at his home in East Lansing, Mich. He was 52. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Brenda Craine, a spokeswoman for the medical association. Dr. Davis received the diagnosis in February and had since helped to raise public awareness of the disease, which afflicts 37,000 Americans a year and kills 34,000. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2008