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24.01.2022 These kids mean business! SOS From the Kids bring an important message about climate change to the #BGT stage

22.01.2022 THOUGHT FOR TODAY: 10 Facts Every Woman Should Know~~ 1. Everyone has rolls when they bend over. 2. When someone tells you that you're beautiful, believe them. ...They aren't lying. 3. Sometimes we all wake up with breath that could kill a goat. 4. For every woman unhappy with her stretch marks is another woman who wishes she had them. 5. You should definitely have more confidence. And if you saw yourself the way others see you, you would. 6. Don't look for a man to save you. Be able to save yourself. 7. It's okay to not love every part of your body....but you should. 8. We all have that one friend who seems to have it all together. That woman with the seemingly perfect life. Well, you might be that woman to someone else. 9. You should be a priority. Not an option, a last resort, or a backup plan. 10. You're a woman. That alone makes you pretty damn remarkable.~ ~Mary L. Leonard

21.01.2022 RNA, DNA and pathogens! This woman is making news!

20.01.2022 BREAKING: it's been announced that a brand-new $1 million AI award will go to MIT professor Regina Barzilay, whose work uses machine learning to diagnose breast... cancer & develop antibiotics. Read more about Professor Barzilay and the new award from the AAAI - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and Squirrel AI Learning: https://bit.ly/363B5Fo See more

19.01.2022 Did you know this?

18.01.2022 The image of Marlene Dietrich was often a political statement, especially at a time when it was illegal for women to wear trousers in France.

17.01.2022 Gertrude Elion's grandfather meant a great deal to her. When he died of cancer, she decided to find a cure for the horrible disease. She spent her lifetime deve...loping medicines that have saved many lives. She saved all the letters of gratitude that she received for the medicines she developed. Gertrude Elion was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for her "discoveries of important principles for drug treatment." Learn more: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/facts/ See more

15.01.2022 Historic Victory for Kamala Harris!

14.01.2022 Marie Curie and her X-ray vehicles’ contribution to World War I battlefield medicine As science’s first woman celebrity, Marie Curie can hardly be called an uns...ung hero. But the common depiction of her as a one-dimensional person, slaving away in her laboratory with the single-minded purpose of advancing science for science’s sake, is far from the truth. Marie Curie was a multidimensional person, who worked doggedly as both a scientist and a humanitarian. She was a strong patriot of her adopted homeland, having immigrated to France from Poland. And she leveraged her scientific fame for the benefit of her country’s war effort using the winnings from her second Nobel Prize to buy war bonds and even trying to melt down her Nobel medals to convert them to cash to buy more. She didn’t allow her gender to hamper her in a male-dominated world. Instead, she mobilized a small army of women in an effort to reduce human suffering and win World War I. Through her efforts, it is estimated that the total number of wounded soldiers receiving X-ray exams during the war exceeded one million. https://bit.ly/2wRfdZG

14.01.2022 First call is Thursday

14.01.2022 Wonderful woman

13.01.2022 Such an inspiring courageous woman!

09.01.2022 An inspiring woman!

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04.01.2022 Known as the "Ball Method", this technique involved isolating ethyl ester compounds from the fatty acids of chaulmoogra tree seeds, allowing the oil to become i...njectable and absorbable by the body. It was the only treatment for Hansen's disease, or leprosy, that "left no abscesses or bitter taste." Unfortunately, Ball died before being able to publish her revolutionary findings. Her colleague Arthur L. Dean, a chemist and the president of the University of Hawaii, published the findings instead and even renamed the technique the "Dean Method." #BlackinChem See more

02.01.2022 On her very first, simple assignment at the FDA, Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey did something very unexpected. She refused to approve a sleeping pill that was a...lready widely used in the UK and Europe. This wasn’t her first job. By 1960, she had already earned her PhD in pharmacology and her MD from the University of Chicago. She had taught pharmacology at the University of South Dakota as well as being a family doctor. But it was a move to DC with her husband and two young daughters that had her working at the Food and Drug Administration. And she just couldn’t reconcile the data with the purported safety of the sleeping pill that was now also being touted as a morning sickness wonder. She asked the William S. Merrell pharmaceutical company for more information. They responded. She asked for more. They complained to her boss, saying she was a ‘fussy, stubborn, unreasonable bureaucrat’. ‘But, still, she persisted’ and she refused to hurry her approval. By the next year, reports had started to come in from Europe that the drug had been linked to birth defects. Merrell started to deny that their product had any part in the wave of birth defects, then withdrew their application when the data showed their culpability. Kevadon, more commonly known as thalidomide, was never made legal in the United States because of Kelsey. Merrell had sent out samples to physicians prior to approval, and 17 babies were born in the US with the deformities, while in Europe alone it is estimated there were tens of thousands. The outcry against Kelsey ceased. The year after the banning of thalidomide in the US, Kelsey was put in charge of the new FDA branch to test and regulate new drugs. She would work with the FDA for 45 years rewriting the medical-testing regulations, strengthening people’s protections and against medical conflicts of interest. She required informed consent be obtained in clinical trials, adverse reactions be reported to the FDA, and that drugs needed to be both safe and effective. The rules she helped shape have been adopted worldwide. Born in 1914, she lived to be 101 years old. Before her death in 2015, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, had a school named after her, and received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. She had become a naturalized American in 1956, and was appointed to the Order of Canada a day before her death.