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He set out to create an ice cream substitute for people who keep kosher. He created a phenomenon, also loved by vegans, diabetics and people with milk allergies. The rise of David Mintz from Brooklyn caterer to the multimillionaire who became known as the “P.T. Barnum of tofu” began with …

He honed methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and made them accessible to underserved populations in sub-Sahara Africa. He died of Covid-19. This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Dr. David Katzenstein may have been a dreamer, …

Ms. Etuk was attending classes at the University of North Texas when she caught the coronavirus, her mother said. She died of complications of the virus. This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Helen Etuk dreamed of …

A noted psychiatrist, he looked outside his Orthodox tradition to meld an eclectic menu of addiction treatments, including the A.A. idea of a “higher power.” Abraham J. Twerski was an Orthodox rabbi, the descendant of several Hasidic dynasties. Yet he was also a psychiatrist and a respected authority on addiction …

After a bicycle accident left her paralyzed, she wrote a memoir, “A Body, Undone,” which refused to draw tidy lessons about overcoming hardship. Christina Crosby, an athletic woman who had just turned 50, was three miles into her bicycle-riding regimen near her home in Connecticut when her front spokes snagged …

He attested that Trump would be the ‘healthiest president ever,’ but was later expelled from the Trump orbit. Dr. Harold N. Bornstein in his office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 2016. He inherited Donald Trump as a patient from his father, who whom he shared the practice …

He played a major role in combating trachoma, a chlamydia-related disease. 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. Most Americans became aware of chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease more common than …

In a memoir, she also recounted her upbringing as the daughter of Rose Chernin, a Communist organizer convicted of trying to overthrow the government. Kim Chernin, a feminist author and counselor who wrote with compassion about female body dysmorphia and its cultural causes, as well as her own upbringing as …

He used medicine to take on poverty, racism and the threat of nuclear destruction. Two groups he helped start won Nobel Peace Prizes. Dr. H. Jack Geiger, who ran away to Harlem as a teenager and emerged a lifelong civil rights activist, helping to bring medical care and services to …