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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).
Hannah Mary Helen Sexton MBBS (21 June 1862 – 12 October 1950), known as Helen Sexton, was an Australian surgeon.In 1887, she led a group of seven women to successfully petition the University of Melbourne to lift their ban on women enrolling in medicine.
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 ...
In 1945, Helen Mackay was elected to the British Paediatric Association, one of the first women members. [5] She continued to work as a consultant paediatrician for the Mother's Hospital, Clapton, and Hackney Hospital until 1959. [1] On 17 July 1965 Mackay died of a stroke; she was buried three days later at the Golders Green Crematorium in ...
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.
The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag. The moment reminds his father of Patrick’s graduation from college, and he takes a picture of his son with his cell phone.
Helen MacGill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1903. Her mother was Helen Gregory MacGill and her father was James Henry MacGill, a lawyer in Vancouver. She was very close to her sister, Elsie MacGill, who became an aeronautical engineer and served on the first Canadian national commission on the status of women. [1]
Helen Maroulis, the first American woman to win a wrestling gold medal, became the first U.S. female wrestler to qualify for three Summer Games as she earned a spot Saturday night on the American ...