Walter Reed, 13 September 1951

Walter Reed. A biography

WILLIAM B. BEAN, Walter Reed. A biography, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, $12.95. I enjoyed reading Dr Bean's life of Walter Reed. Its style and content fall somewhere between the writings of Paul de Kruif and Gwyn Macfarlane's life of Howard Florey. In fact, there are striking resemblances to Macfarlane's book, as the author has been to enormous trouble...

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

For 50 years, the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) has set the standard for tropical infectious disease research and development. Founded as the SEATO Laboratory and renamed AFRIMS in 1977, as a research facility, it has acquired new disease research missions to be responsive to meet new challenges. Our mission has developed to conduct basic, preclinical and clinical...

Walter Reed (1851-1902): on the cause of yellow fever.

BEGINNINGS Born in Belroi, Virginia on September 13, 1851, Walter Reed was the youngest of five children. His was a religious family; his father, Lemuel Sutton Reed, was a Methodist minister and his mother, Pharaba White Reed, was a staunch Christian. At age 14, he began two years of serious study under former Confederate Army Lieutenant William Richardson Abbot, who instilled in the young man ...

Washington University Record, September 13, 2007

WRNMMC Us TOO, Inc. A PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP SPONSORED BY WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER

As a result of increased public awareness and the advocacy of the cancer support community, Congress directed the Department of Defense to execute targeted biomedical research programs for prostate cancer (PC) research. As a PC survivor and member of the Walter Reed PC support community, in August of 2011, I was given the opportunity to participate in an evaluation process that led to the selec...