Nightly News   |  August 08, 2011

Former NIH director Bernadine Healy dies

Bernadine Healy, a cardiologist who was the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health from 1991 to 1993, died on Saturday at the age of 67. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: has died. She was a Harvard -educated cardiologist who ran NIH and American Red Cross . She advised three US presidents , a well known media figure in her own right. She resigned from the Red Cross under pressure for a lackluster performance post 9/11. Dr. Healy battled brain cancer for over a decade. She was 67 years