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Remembering Jack O. Scher: founding publisher.(News)

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| October 15, 2003 | Lohr, Elizabeth | COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Jack O. Scher, founding publisher of the six medical specialty newspapers that became the building blocks of the International Medical News Group, died on June 4 at his home in Faber, Va. He was 76 years old.

Mr. Scher launched his first medical specialty newspaper, OB.GYN. NEWS, in 1966, followed by PEDIATRIC NEWS in 1967. Later, with William Rubin and Meadie (Ed) Pace, Mr. Scher started INTERNAL MEDICINE NEWS (1968), SKIN ALLERGY NEWS (1970), FAMILY PRACTICE NEWS (1971), and CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY NEWS (1973). The business was sold to Capital Cities Media Inc. in 1976.

Mr. Scher's former business associates described him as a dynamic, savvy publishing entrepreneur known for his colorful personality and unconventional style.

"Jack Scher was among the first to recognize the importance of medical specialty newspapers" at the onset of accelerated medical research and socioeconomic changes in the late 1960s and early 1970s, ...

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