''Medical World News'' was an American

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for the medical profession. It was published between 1960 and 1994.

History and profile

''Medical World News'' was founded in April 1960 by

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, a New York publisher. The founding editor of ''Medical World News'' was

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. The magazine was later sold to

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and in March 1981 it was sold by McGraw-Hill to Hospital Equities, an operator of health care facilities.

Miller Freeman Miller Freeman, Inc., was a San Francisco-based publisher of trade books and business magazines, as well as a manager of trade and industry expositions. It was an innovative force in business technology and communications in the 1990s until i ...

acquired the magazine from Hospital Equities. In 1994 the magazine ceased publication. In 1985 McGovern Center for Historical Collections (endowed by

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) acquired an archive of

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s from ''Medical World News''. This archive is accessible at

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. In 2020, a digital video-based version of Medical World News was launched by MJH Life Sciences. The company, under the name of Intellisphere, obtained and filed the copyright for the title in 2013.

References

External links

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