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JAMA. 1999;281:26.

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• Paul Higgins, MD, a US Public Health Service captain, has been appointed chief, Office of Health Services, US Coast Guard, Washington, DC.
  
• William J. Bremner, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He is director of the institution's Population Center for Research in Reproduction and chief of medical service at Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System.
  
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