Medicine and Healthcare

Included in the 35 entries in this section is information about inventor of artificial joint replacements, early designer of lens implant, co-discoverers of scarlet fever treatment and prevention and minoxidil treatment for baldness, pioneers of treatment of bone fractures and wounds with plaster-of-Paris cast, the use of laboratory animals for inoculation experiments and disease identification, and deinstitutionalization of mentally ill patients, originator of free radical theory of aging, first to verify effectiveness of anti-coagulant dicumerol for human beings, first to verify that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever, first to verify the means of transmission of Rocky Mountain Fever and typhus fever, and first to perform total hip replacement surgery using vitallium, developer of first separate curriculum for forensic medicine in 1955, founder of transcultural nursing, designer of longest and most comprehensive aging study in Canada, pioneers of anti-smoking and anti-cholesterol crusades, four cancer experts, one liver transplant expert, two personal physicians to U.S. Presidents while in White House, a U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration, one of ten best anatomists in nation, world’s top 100 longest-lived person; one person elected to National Academy of Sciences, one recipient of National Medal of Science and Albert Lasker Award, and two Nobel Prize nominees.

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