1.   Berns is leaving the University of Florida Health Science Center, where he is vice president for health affairs and dean of the school of medicine.

2.   But Dr. John D. Clough, director of health affairs at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, said Bush was right to make consent optional.

3.   Dressed in a white coat, the new Palestinian Authority official in charge of health affairs, was visibly shaken.

4.   He held the concurrent position of director of urban health affairs at NYU Medical Center.

5.   Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said serious questions have been raised about the accuracy of the Navy data.

6.   Rodin also asked Kelley to take on an expanded role as executive vice president for health affairs at the university.

7.   Principi said he is working with Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., undersecretary of defense for health affairs, to confirm the deaths and determine what caused them.

8.   Sue Bailey, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said the Defense Department intends to continue toward its goal of immunizing all military members.

9.   The portfolios of the ministers who will visit Ambon include public works, religious affairs, social affairs, health affairs and forestry and plantations.