NEW YORK - Paul Wendkos - a movie and television director best known for the frothy surfer film “Gidget,’’ but whose other productions ranged from the dark and edgy to historical dramas - died Nov. 12 at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 84.By: Dennis Hevesi|Date: Nov 23, 2009

NEW YORK - Jeremy N. Morris, a British epidemiologist whose comparison of heart-attack rates among double-decker bus drivers and conductors in London in the late 1940s and early 1950s laid the scientific groundwork for the modern aerobics movement, died Oct. 28 in Hampstead, London. He was 99 1/2.By: Dennis Hevesi|Date: Nov 9, 2009

Mrs. Wald’s vision of bringing the terminally ill peace of mind and, to whatever extent possible, freedom from pain led to the opening of the first palliative care hospice in the United States.By: Dennis Hevesi|Date: Nov 14, 2008

Dr. Dao opposed radical mastectomy in favor of more conservative surgery and worked with a Nobel laureate on research into the role of hormones in human cancer.By: Dennis Hevesi|Date: Jul 26, 2009

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