Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council. Blackwell played an important role in both the United Sta...
Tu Youyou has become the first female scientist of the People’s Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize, awarded for her contribution to the fight against malaria, one of the deadliest diseases in human history. Thanks to her discovery of qinghaosu, malaria patients all over the world no...
I have lived in rural America for nine years, first in Michigan, where I got my PhD; then in central Illinois and now in Indiana, where I am a professor. In a place where most people have lived the whole of their lives, I feel like a stranger. There are few things I enjoy more ...
The American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) has announced its selection of the African Caribbean Cancer Consortium to receive its coveted 2023 Team Science Award. The consortium is comprised of an interdisciplinary group of researchers and physicians, including urologists, surgeons, onc...
Her words kept ringing in my ears, which challenges me to work harder even at this difficult stage” (Afia, a final year female FGCS) Other participants mentioned the institutional support they receive as their compelling factor. They stated that their teachers at the Senior High School level ...
Patients had a mean age of 61.7 years (range 24 to 84 years; 34.1% were ≥ 65 and < 75 years; 9.9% were ≥ 75 years) and 59.5% were male. Patients were White (82.9%), African American (11.2%) or Asian (5.2%). The mean body weight was 97.6 kg (range 46 to 196 kg) and ...
But Watergate’s wounds were still fresh. Conflict raged over Nixon’s tapes and files, which the ex-president claimed as executive privilege; the House Judiciary Committee released their damning report on Nixon’s conduct; and Nixon’s lawyer claimed that his client could not receive a fair tr...
Who participated in the first armed encounter of the American Revolution, and later became the first black to receive an honorary master's degree? Who was the author of a book of poetry that won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a black American?
(3 percent in 2019 and 9 percent in 2018). There was a similar representation of Hispanic/Latinx (5 percent), Black/African American (4 percent), and biracial/multiracial respondents (4 percent). Similar to last year, less than 2 percent identified as Native Alaskan/American Indian/First ...
Malata attained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing with distinction from University of Malawi in 1995, before proceeding to read for a Master of Science and PhD from Edith Cowan University in Australia. She did not get to where she is easy; she had to work hard to get there. No one in...