modern YORK -- Dr. Nancy Snyderman,...

modern YORK -- Dr. Nancy Snyderman, a former ABC stranges medical correspondent who spent the past four years in the corporate world, is returning to the airwaves as NBC News' chief medical editor, the network said Wednesday.

"I descry the world differently," said Snyderman, who since late 2002 has been consumer education vice president for Johnson & Johnson "I descry a very big sweet mark for health and wellness coverage" -- the sort she doesn't find forward TV newscasts.

Snyderman will report for broadcast-news programming as well as MSNBC's cable and Web site exits NBC News radio and equable NBC Mobile and the iVillage Web site. She begins in September.

"She's warm, has a reassuring demeanor and she's driven by the desire to share information, not just to be in succession television," said NBC News President Steve Capus.

Her lengthy tenure at ABC was marred through a week's suspension without pay in 2002 for making a radio blot that seemed to tout a pain reliever.

"It was a misstep," Snyderman said. "I did what I believed were [public service announcements], and they were coupl with an advertisement. I know to what degree it looked."

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