Medicine

Candid Conversation With Jen Haller, The First Person To Receive Injection Of Trial Coronavirus Vaccine

wyskMarch 23, 2020

On Monday, March 16, in a monumental act of courage and selflessness, Jen Haller, age 43, became the first person to receive the first-ever injection of an inv...

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Midwife To A Nation: Madame du Coudray And The King’s Commission To Professionalize Childbirth

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 8, 2020

Midwife. Few words in the history of western medicine can evoke sudden and unequivocal academic tribal sentiment as that single term. To one school...

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The Path Of Most Resistance: Sophia Jex-Blake And The Fight For Women’s Medical Education

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 13, 2019

She had founded first England and then Scotland's first medical school for women, and been instrumental in the passing of the Medical Act that allowed women to...

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Mildred Cohn And Her Pioneering Work In Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 2, 2019

ATP is the stuff of life. Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which is to say, darn near everything...

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‘Black Women in Medicine’ Documentary Chronicles The Unsung Journeys Of Black Female Doctors

wyskSeptember 25, 2018

The feature documentary film to chronicle the lives of women who challenge stereotypes, race, gender, class, and culture to achieve their dream of becoming physicians. ...

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The Hard Rise And Long Fall Of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), The First Woman MD

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 12, 2018

The long life of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first woman to earn a Medical Degree in America, can be divided into two roughly equal parts: four decades...

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The Amazing Life Of Dr. Margaret Chung, The First American-Born Chinese Woman Physician and Surgeon

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 1, 2018

Her mother was raised in a brothel, and her "son" was Ronald Reagan.Take any section of Dr. Margaret Chung's (1889-1959) life, and lay it against any other,...

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With The Donation Of One Kidney, Mary Robinson Saved 8 Lives… And You Can Help To Save More

Guest ContributorJuly 12, 2018

By Mary Robinson - I am social. I play tennis and guitar, sing with a big band, and volunteer with a disaster relief organization. One of these activities turne...

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115 Years Ago Today Marie Sklodowska Curie Made History

wyskJune 25, 2018

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." - Marie Sk?odowska Curie...

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