medicine

Her discovery led to better treatments that extended the lives of millions of cancer patients.

It was the key to figuring out the biology of dozens of genetic diseases.

During World War II, Perry was a physical therapist for the U.S. Army, where she treated patients stricken by polio. But she wanted to “make my own decisions,” she said later, and went to medical school to become not just a doctor, but an orthopedic surgeon. “Most doctors go into medicine to save lives,” she … Read more

Levi-Montalcini defied her father and became a doctor — and revolutionized medicine.

Dr. Murray performed the first successful human organ transplant.

Beasley figured out hepatitis B. “It is eradicable.”

She was a plain-spoken doctor.