Dr. William F. Friedman
Age: 69
Summary: former
chairman of the pediatrics department at the David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA whose research led to therapeutic advances in the care
of thousands of premature babies born each year in the U.S. who had
edited the first modern edition of the Harriet Lane Handbook, a standard resource still used by medical students and pediatric residents, who was editor of Pediatric Research and associate editor of Pediatric Annals.
Cause of Death: Interstitial pulmonary fibrosis
Born: July 24, 1936
Died: August 25, 2005
Location: Brentwood, California
