Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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).
In 1833 French chemist Anselme Payen was the first to discover an enzyme, diastase. In 1834, François Mothes and Joseph Dublanc created a method to produce a single-piece gelatin capsule that was sealed with a drop of gelatin solution. In 1853 Alexander Wood was the first physician that used hypodermic needle to dispense drugs via Injections.
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 ...
Beecham's Pills were a laxative first marketed about 1842 in Wigan, Lancashire. They were invented by Thomas Beecham (1820–1907), grandfather of the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham (1879–1961). The British pharmaceutical firm, established in 1859 as Beechams , became a global brand, and in the year it was founded produced the first advertising ...
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.
Kimberly Elise as Helen Simmons-McCarter, a woman who is the soon-to-be ex-wife of Charles. Steve Harris as Charles McCarter, a successful lawyer. Shemar Moore as Orlando, a moving truck driver. Tamara Taylor as Debrah, Brian's drug-addicted wife. Cicely Tyson as Myrtle Simmons, Helen's mother. Tyler Perry as:
Oklahoma authorities are now in the midst of an urgent search for a young girl after her mother confessed to having handed her over to a drug dealer in 2022. The woman, 39-year-old Moore resident ...
Mother losing two sons to drug overdose calls for OD prevention centers in Mass. ... Numbers dropped slightly over the first nine months in 2023, with 1,718 confirmed and estimated opioid-related ...