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Jump to full article: Los Angeles Times, 2007-09-05
Author: Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Intro: Dr. Edward N. Brandt Jr., the Oklahoma physician who oversaw the federal government's first response to the AIDS epidemic and who initiated requirements for tamper-proof drug packaging after a highly publicized Tylenol poisoning incident, died Aug. 26 at his home in Oklahoma City.
He was 74 and had been suffering from lung cancer. It was on Brandt's watch as the government's top physician that the United States issued its strongest reports that linked smoking to cancers of the lung and other organs. He was not a smoker, however.
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