Beryl Benacerraf, Dies; Pioneered the Use of Prenatal Ultrasound
She completed a radiology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a fellowship at Brigham …
She completed a radiology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a fellowship at Brigham …
Dr. Joyce C. Lashof, who fought for health equity and broke barriers as the first …
The Gotliebs moved often: to Sicily, followed by several years in Trieste, Italy; Nuevo Laredo, …
After working for a while as a peddler, Abraham made enough money to open his …
Kevin M. Cahill, who managed to pack several careers into a single life as a …
Susan L. Solomon, whose frustration over lags in finding a cure for her teenage son’s …
None of those come close to Mr. Lewitinn’s streak, a combination, doctors say, of his …
When Sheila Tobias finished her freshman year at Radcliffe College in 1954, her professor in …
He wrote extensively on gay identity and history, but New Yorkers knew a different side of his work: his campaigns on H.I.V. and other health issues.
Often called the father of the health maintenance organization, he coined the term in 1970, envisioning a system that would compete for patients by providing the best care at the lowest price.
Sigmund Freuds last surviving grandchild, she fled the Nazis in Vienna, became a professor in America and argued that psychoanalysis was a narcissistic indulgence.
With a colleague, he created a miniaturized defibrillator that could be implanted inside patients suffering from potentially fatal arrhythmia.
He delved into numerous scientific fields stem-cell research, genetic modification of food and DNA privacy among them and sought to pinpoint the dangers.
His company, Emergent BioSolutions, won a lucrative contract to produce Covid vaccines but then had to throw out millions of contaminated doses.
In one of many scoops for The Times, he revealed how the tobacco industry had kept secret its own research showing that nicotine was harmful and addictive.