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The fortification of these milk products with vitamin A is endorsed by the American Medical Association, with the concurrence of the Food and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council and the Expert Panel on Food Safety and Nutrition of the Institute of Food Technologists (AMA 1982). The fortification of dried skim milk with vitamin A is viewed by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization (WHO 1977) as an important measure to combat vitamin A deficiency in developing countries, where 20,000 to 100,000 children yearly develop blindness from a lack of vitamin A in their diets (DeLuca et al. 1979). 

Institute for Biomedical Research, Education and Research Foundation, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois... 

It appears that the modern patient safety movement started in 1991 with the publication of the results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study in the New England Journal of Medicine [2-4], In the study, the medical records of 30,000 patients hospitalized in acute care hospitals in New York State in 1984 were examined. In 1996, the American Medical Association announced the formation of the National Patient Safety Foundation [2], In 1999, the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine released its report entitled "To Err Is Human Building a Safer Health System" [5]. The report stated that medical errors are causing 44,000-98,000 preventable deaths annually in the United States. In 2001, the United States Congress appropriated 50 million per year for patient safety research to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) [2],... 

This material was developed by the National Research and Demonstration Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Grant. No. HL-17269. Support is also acknowledged from The National Heart Foundation and Medical Research Council of New Zealand (WSH). JTS is an Established Investigator of The American Heart Association. 

His bibliography includes over 300 medical papers and more than 200 abstracts. Dr. Preuss has edited or co-edited six books and three symposia published in well-established journals. He is the co-author of two books written for the lay public, The Prostate Cure and Mai take Magic. In 1976, Dr. Preuss was elected to membership in the American Society of Clinical Inveshgations. He is currently an advisory editor for six journals. His previous government appointments included 4 years on the Advisory Council for the Nahonal Institute on Aging, 2 years on the Advisory Council of the director of the NIH, and 2 years on the Advisory Council for the Office of Altemahve Medicine of the NIH. He has been a member of many other peer research review committees for the NIH and American Heart Association and is now a member of the Nahonal Cholesterol Education Program of the NHLBl. 

The research by our group reported here has been supported by the American Heart Association Chicago Heart Association Illinois Regional Medical Program and the National Heart and Lung Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service. 

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