Medicine

One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 21, 2020

In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...

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14-Year-Old Anika Chebrolu Named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ For Work On Potential COVID-19 Cure

wyskOctober 21, 2020

14-year-old Anika Chebrolu was just named the winner of the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge, an annual innovation competition hosted in partnership with...

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The Many Wars Of Florence Nightingale

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 2, 2020

Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to soldiers who had been ...

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An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 8, 2020

The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six women into the variousl...

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From The Underground Railroad In Syracuse To A Historic Practice In Santo Domingo: The Journey Of Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser

Dale DeBakcsyJune 25, 2020

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to earn a Medical Degree, and within half a century seven thousand American women had followed her...

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A Healer At The Fringe Of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey Of Doctor Anna Bek

Dale DeBakcsyJune 18, 2020

It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the distant Siberian fringe ...

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“Can You Please Call Us Back”… Why I’m Glad I Forced Myself To Do A Mammogram In The Time Of COVID

Guest ContributorJune 17, 2020

By Cheryl Laughlin - 2020 had a certain symmetry built into it. By January 2, 2020, I was fleeing the soul-suck of a demeaning job for a soul-pump of a bright ...

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13-Year-Old Artist Creates Hero Award For All To Share With Healthcare Workers On COVID-19 Frontline

wyskApril 28, 2020

Hero Award: Thank you heroes on the frontline…for saving our lives while putting yours on the lineIn a creative show of appreciation for medical profession...

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Girl Coded App For Best Friend With Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Inspires Creation Of True Hero Hospital Doll

wyskApril 7, 2020

At 18 months old, Grace O’Malley was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 (SMA2), a disease that affects "the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, ta...

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