Sixth Graders "Meet" Dr. Papanicolaou in the Archives
on January 25, 2023
What do Dr. George Papanicolaou and primary sources have in common? A group of sixth graders from the Hellenic Charter School in Brooklyn, New York wanted to find out! Last month the Medical Center Archives...
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Pioneers in Reproductive Medicine: Fritz Fuchs, MD
on September 13, 2019
Dr. Fritz Fuchs was an internationally known obstetrician and gynecologist who, along with his colleague, Povi Riis, was the first to use amniocentesis for detecting the sex of a fetus in Demark in 1955. This...
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New Exhibit: Pioneers in Reproductive Medicine
on April 5, 2019
New Exhibition! Dr. Henry Heimlich: Maneuvering His Way into Medical History
By Nicole Milano on November 19, 2018
President Ronald Reagan. New York City Mayor Ed Koch. Actress Elizabeth Taylor. The Heimlich maneuver is credited with saving the lives of these and many others since its invention by Dr. Henry Heimlich in...
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Heberden Society Lecture
on September 7, 2018
THE HEBERDEN SOCIETY LECTURE: PROMOTING INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINEThe New York Academy of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health and The Heberden Society, Weill Cornell...
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