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Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology.She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome).
Helen Octavia Dickens (February 21, 1909 – December 2, 2001) was an American physician, medical and social activist, health equity advocate, researcher, health administrator, and health educator. She was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the American College of Surgeons in 1950, and specialized in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Feet of a baby born to a mother who had taken thalidomide while pregnant. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries was prescribed to women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant, and consequently resulted in the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as ...
Cheryl Juaire of Marlborough lost two of her three sons to drug overdoses. Corey, at left, died in Feb. 2011, and Sean died in June 2021. Juaire attended an event Thursday at the Statehouse to ...
The day before he died, he watched his 7-year-old son participate in a karate exhibition. His mother and sister would find him dead from an overdose in the room he was renting at a sober-living house. Greenwell conceded that Lillard’s fate was not unique. Two-thirds of addicts drop out or get kicked out of his program, he said.
The Quinlans published two books about the case: Karen Ann: The Quinlans Tell Their Story (1977) [14] and My Joy, My Sorrow: Karen Ann's Mother Remembers (2005). [15] In 1976 The band Starz (formerly Looking Glass) wrote a song "Pull the Plug" from their 1st studio album, "Starz", that paralleled Quinlan's story.
Veteran actress Liz Sheridan, best known for playing Jerry’s mother Helen on Seinfeld, has died at the age of 93, our sister site Deadline reports. Sheridan died overnight in her sleep of ...
Helen married John Derek Taylor-Thompson CB in late 1954. He was one of Her Majesty's Commissioners of Inland Revenue. Helen's grandfather was Sir Alexander Glegg (1848 - 1933). Her mother, Helen Macdonald Glegg, died shortly after giving birth to her in Cambridgeshire. She had a brother, Stuart Alastair Laurie Walker, who was four years her ...