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One hundred and fifty years ago, Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
After 50 years, we take a look back at the pharmaceutical industry’s first $100 million brand.
With his creation of the American College of Surgeons 100 years ago, Franklin Martin introduced a vital aspect to surgery: regulation.
To quarantine or not to quarantine? To this day, difficult public health case Typhoid Mary still begs the question.
Modern emergency care finds its roots in the Army of the Potomac.
Lacking a standardized test to assess a baby’s health at birth, anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar created a simple rubric that persists more than a half century later.
In 1966, the anaesthetist-in-chief of Massachusetts General Hospital published a paper that would yield greater protection for clinical trial subjects.
MGH’s clinical research center, opened in 1925, created a model for the NIH to open similar facilities across the country.
A century ago, MGH pathologist Richard Cabot made an event out of physicians identifying illnesses—and greatly improved diagnostic methods as a result.
The city’s first hospital was founded to treat the poor—and serve as a teaching locale for Harvard Medical School.
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