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After working with wounded Israeli soldiers in the 1970s, he developed a holistic approach to helping patients regain some semblance of the life they had before. Yehuda Ben-Yishay, a psychologist whose experience working with wounded Israeli soldiers led him to make pioneering advances in treating traumatic brain injuries, helping countless …

She was passionate — and relentless — about making the city she loved navigable for everyone. Edith Prentiss, a fierce and fiery advocate for the disabled who fought to make the city she loved more navigable for everyone, died on March 16 at her home in the Washington Heights neighborhood …

His death leaves only one family physician in Greenfield, Mo. He died of complications of Covid-19. This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. For the past 15 years, there were only two family physicians in Greenfield, Mo., …

A machine that acted as an artificial lung kept her eligible for a transplant as she dealt with cystic fibrosis. She went on to compete again in marathons. Liesbeth Stoeffler’s doctors had a bold decision to make in 2009. Ms. Stoeffler was on a ventilator and deeply sedated after cystic …

He was a top executive at Memorial Sloan Kettering before resigning over payments from health care companies. He went on to lead cancer research at AstraZeneca. Dr. José Baselga, a renowned cancer researcher and pharmaceutical executive whose work helped transform the treatment of breast cancer patients, died on Sunday. He …

Mr. Taylor died by suicide after suffering from post-Covid-19 symptoms, including severe tinnitus, the company said. Kent Taylor, the founder and chief executive of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, died by suicide on Thursday after suffering from post-Covid-19 symptoms, the company and his family said in a statement. He was …

His first company, Odwalla, was crippled by a bacterial outbreak; he then started Califia Farms, now a leader in the beverage industry. In 1980, Greg Steltenpohl and his hippie friends in Santa Cruz, Calif., bought a juicer for $ 250, began squeezing fresh orange juice and sold it out of …

In a letter of caution to Peloton users, the chief executive said the company had been aware of “a small handful” of other instances in which children were hurt. An accident involving a Peloton treadmill has left a child dead, the company’s chief executive announced on Thursday. In a letter …

Her natural childbirth techniques have been used by Kate Middleton, Jessica Alba and many other women around the world in search of a more gentle, unmedicated experience. When Marie Mongan was pregnant with her third child in the 1950s, she made an unusual demand. She told her doctor that when …