ART

Virginia Apgar, MD, was an American physician, obstetric anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known for ...

MAY 24, 2023

Vivien T. Thomas was a Black medical technician who developed a procedure to treat cyanotic heart disease in the ...

AUGUST 7, 2022

No instrument has been more important to the field of surgery than the Bovie electrocautery device. When it comes ...

JULY 4, 2022

Never in the history of medicine, one could argue, has there been a discovery as significant as the x-ray.

APRIL 29, 2022

Dr. Mary Walker was an American abolitionist, a prohibitionist, a prisoner of war and a surgeon. She was a highly ...

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Central venous catheterization was first performed in 1929. Since then, central venous access has become a mainstay ...

JANUARY 31, 2022

Alexis Carrel was a French American surgeon who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for ...

JANUARY 6, 2022

In surgery, the frozen section is one of the most valuable intraoperative tools the surgeon has while working with ...

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Daniel Hale Williams, MD, was a Black general surgeon, who in 1893 performed a documented, successful open-heart ...

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, there was a turn for the good regarding science, ...

AUGUST 17, 2021

Michael Faraday was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.

JUNE 21, 2021