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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Patricia Sullivan / The Bulletin
June 30, 2008
Basil Rifkind, 73, a physician who was a national leader in the 1980s effort to persuade Americans to lower their cholesterol level and avoid heart disease, died June 22 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington. He had Parkinson’s disease.
Rifkind was one of the principal figures on a....
