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Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute , the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology , and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center .
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
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1988: Patricia Bath was the first African American woman to receive a medical patent, which was her invention of laser cataract treatment. [56] 1988: Gertrude B. Elion received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment". [57]
A Long Island corrections officer swiped $110,096 in insurance checks intended for his estranged wife’s back surgery, authorities say. Christopher Kowalewski, 49, of Merrick stole 11 of his wife ...
1988 – Laser cataract surgery – Patricia Bath; 1989 – Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) – Alan Handyside; 1989 – DNA microarray – Stephen Fodor; 1990 – Gamow bag® – Igor Gamow; 1992 – Description of Brugada syndrome (Pedro and Josep Brugada) 1992 – First vaccine for hepatitis A available [107]
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations conducted 113,431 administrative arrests in the fiscal year that ended October 2024, according to an agency report. That was about 310 arrests a day.
The removal of cataracts by surgery was introduced into China from India, and flourished in the Sui (581–618 CE) and Tang (618–907 CE) dynasties. [ 17 ] The first references to cataract and its treatment in Europe are found in 29 CE in De Medicina , a medical treatise by Latin encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus , which describes a ...