Overall mortality rates continue to decline, according to the most recent Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. Cancer mortality has declined, but certain demographic groups are more at risk than others. This report, which appears in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, was a joint effort among the National Cancer…
BAGHDAD — If people remember anything about the Iraq Museum, it is most likely the televised images of it being looted in 2003 as American troops watched from their tanks. Statues too heavy to move were knocked from their pedestals, their 3,000- and 4,000-year-old shoulders bashed to powder. Some lost their eyes or one side…
Roma Bhatia and Helge Immo Lehmann were married June 8 at the Plummer House in Rochester, Minn. Ronur Murali Bhattar, a Hindu priest, officiated. The bride, 28, and groom, 33, are third-year resident physicians in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In July, the bride will begin a general medicine fellowship at…
Dr. Katherine Rose Schlosser and Dr. Ogheneochuko Silas Ejiro Metitiri were married June 8 in New York. The Rev. C. Alfred Loua, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony at St. Paul’s Chapel, which is part of the Trinity Church Wall Street parish. Dr. Schlosser Metitiri, 34, is a staff pediatric critical-care doctor at Columbia University’s…
Rachel Alexandra Mack and Joshua Michael Kolsky were married June 8 at Battello, a restaurant and events space in Jersey City. Cantor Cathy Lawrence officiated. Mrs. Kolsky, 31, is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at George Washington University, from which she received a master’s degree in the same field. In July, she is to…
Kevin Michael Johnson and Zachary Stewart Clark were married June 8 at Mount Hope Farm in Bristol, R.I. Erik Dawe, a friend of the couple and a Universal Life minister, officiated. Mr. Johnson (left), 37, is an architect and a partner in the Washington office of SmithGroup, a design firm. He graduated cum laude from…
Jenna Marie Gilligan and Michael Broderick Spencer were married June 8 at the Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass. Justin Broderick, an uncle of the groom who received permission from Massachusetts to solemnize the marriage, officiated. The bride, 30, is a director at Version 2.0 Communications, a public relations firm in Boston. She graduated magna cum…
Dr. Sara DeReath Collins and Christopher Lanier Jenkins were married June 8 at the InterContinental Washington D.C. — the Wharf. William Harris, a Universal Life minister, officiated. Dr. Collins, 43, is an interventional cardiologist for Capital Cardiology Consultants in Washington. She graduated from Brown and received a medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville.…
Elizabeth King and Dr. Allen Franklin Shih were married June 8 at the Morristown Church-on-the-Green in Morristown, N.J. The Rev. Dr. Brandon Cho, a United Methodist minister, performed the ceremony. The couple, both 27, met at Yale, from which the bride received a law degree and the groom received an M.B.A. and a medical degree.…
Megan Granski and Alexander David Sommer were married June 8 at the Roundhouse, an events space in Beacon, N.Y. Michael D. Levy, a friend of the couple who is a Universal Life minister, officiated, with Bobby A. Fisher, an uncle of the bride, leading the ceremony. Ms. Granski, 27, is pursuing a doctorate in counseling…