Father of preventive medicine, Dr Jeremiah Stamler, turns 100


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Dr Stamler (right), who was then director of heart research with the Chicago Board of Health, and lab technician Betty Humber conducting a glucose test on June 12, 1967, at the Civic Center in Chicago. — TNS

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