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Office of Communications
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Director of Communications
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Marketing Communications
UVA Health System
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National News Director
Vanderbilt University
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Yale University School of Medicine
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 4 Contact
Atlanta
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Texas Christian University
Harris School of Nursing
Fort Worth, Texas
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Public and Media Relations
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis
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CCFA
New York
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Bakersfield, Calif.
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Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center
Chicago
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Duke University Medical Center
Durham, N.C.
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Medical University of South Carolina
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Anchor/Health Reporter
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Medical Reporter
WABC/New York
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Portland, Oregon
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Gilford Hyder
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Thank you so much for your interesting news and updates. It gives us so much hope to read, for example, that islet transplants will soon be available for diabetics. My son is 16 and I keep on hoping and praying that something will happen for diabetics.
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Charles City, Iowa
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Thanks to you for bringing this treatment to my notice in May 2000 [on Ivanhoe.com], when I first got access to the Internet. All of my wife's family and friends have had their lives affected positively by your publicity."
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As a 19-year-old weekly billboard service for physicians we believe we have considerable perspective on news services, in general, and on those serving health care professionals, in particular.
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