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America in the 1920s. The Jazz Age - flappers and motorcars, talkies and speak-easies - it is difficult to reflect on this time without...

The story of the women’s medical movement in India is, when told at all, generally centered upon its British founding figures - Ida...

The lack of regulation in American industry during the early Twentieth Century is the stuff of horrific legend - from the grotesqueries...

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States; within half a century 7,000 American...

Clara Barton resided on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have...

Harriet Boyd Hawes was cursed from birth with an overabundance of Purpose. She was ever in search of a Problem to solve, and possessed...

I wish to say farewell to all those who thought of me as a friend, to all those who were kind to me, assuring them all that the deep...

Who (besides, obviously, bacteria) doesn't love penicillin? It's on everybody's shortlist of the most important things we've discovered...

There are few stories in the history of Women in Science with as much innate and compelling drama as that of the Edinburgh Seven, which...

In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of...