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August 18, 2009

CNNHealth quotes UCSF nephrologist in story on Mozart’s death

UCSF nephrology professor Stephen Gluck, MD, is interviewed as an outside expert in an Aug. 17 CNNhealth.com story about new theories on Mozart’s death. The cause of the 35-year-old composer’s death in 1791 has long been a mystery, with theories ranging from tuberculosis to poisoning. A new study from the University of Amsterdam analyzed death records at the time, as well as personal accounts of Mozart’s symptoms, and proposes that Mozart died from complications related to strep throat. The article, which CNN picked up from Health Magazine, ranked among CNN‘s most emailed health stories for the week and included Gluck as an objective analyst of the study.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/17/mozart.strep.throat/index.html