Book Review: Letter To A Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven
Walking into a doctor’s office, most of us feel that we are crossing into the domain of some manner of super being, an individual who has stared steadily into ...
Medicine
From Grieving Daughter To Volunteer Activist To CEO: A Search For Answers Inspired Her To Lead Groundbreaking Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer
By Julie Fleshman - Cancer. It’s a word that makes you go numb. In 1999, my father was diagnosed with cancer -- pancreatic cancer. The news was debilitating. P...
History-Making Ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath Could Be First Black Woman Inducted Into National Inventors Hall Of Fame
Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019) lived a life without limits. She was the first Black American to complete an Ophthalmology residency at New Y...
Can We Please Start Talking About Perimenopause?
By Skylar Liberty Rose - During a recent visit with my doctor I referred to some issues I’d been having with my periods. I explained that over the past year th...
Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life And Legacy Of Dr. Anna Marie Skalka
In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics dictated that DNA is transcr...
One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India
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...
14-Year-Old Anika Chebrolu Named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ For Work On Potential COVID-19 Cure
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...
The Many Wars Of Florence Nightingale
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 ...
An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon
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...