Murray Feingold
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Murray Feingold | |
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| Born | July 20, 1930 Pediatrician, geneticist |
Murray Feingold (July 20, 1930 – July 17, 2015) was an
The Genesis Foundation for Children
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Early life and career
Feingold was born in
birth defects at Boston Floating Hospital for Children and director of genetics at Franciscan Children's Hospital and Rehabilitation Center. Feingold was the medical editor at CBS Boston WBZ-TV and WBZ Radio for 30 years.[2] He died on July 17, 2015, three days shy of his 85th birthday.[3]
Feingold syndrome was named after him, as he was the first to describe it in the medical literature in 1975
Publications
- Genetics and Birth Defects in Clinical Practice, a standard medical textbook, co-author.[4]
- Normal values for selected physical parameters: an aid to syndrome delineation.[5]
Feingold authored 180 articles that have been published in the medical literature. He described three genetic syndromes, one bearing his name, Feingold syndrome. He wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled "Second Opinion" that appeared in 80 newspapers. Feingold also had a daily medical feature on WBZ-CBS Radio in Boston entitled "Medical Minute."
References
- ^ Fuller, Clarence C. (1969). "Records of Robert Fuller of Salem and Rehoboth and some of his descendants".
- ^ Dr. Murray Feingold Archived 2011-08-01 at the Wayback Machine. CBS Boston. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
- ^ "WBZ's Dr. Murray Feingold, Founder of Genesis Foundation, Passes Away at 84". 2015-07-17.
- ^ Birth defects original article series, 1974
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