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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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]