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Tag: medicine
Medicine is Failing Black Women
Black women are not receiving the health care, or respect, that they deserve. Even as overall health care improves, Black women continue to benefit far less than any other racial…
Happy #nationaldoctorsday
👩🏽⚕️ An excellent occasion to honor Dr. May Edward Chinn 🔬 Dr. May Edward Chinn spent her career researching cancer, helping to develop the Pap smear and advocating for early…
#TBT – Maud Menten (1879-1960)
#TBT honoring Maud Menten (1879-1960) 🔬 Maud Menten was a Canadian physician-scientist whose name is associated with the famous Michaelis-Menten equation used in biochemistry. As a biochemical and medical researcher, Maud…
Meet Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion was an American pharmacologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for the development of drugs used to treat several major diseases. Elion…