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Do you have medical practitioners in your family?==Add profiles and trace the professionThis project is to trace the medical profession in families. With the use of " History Link " and, profiles added here, you will be able to find, at a glance, how many in your family chose this career of healing.==Resources* Medical Pioneers Australia * London Doctors 1550-1640 == History Link History link i...
Nurses and Midwives Image right A recruiting poster for Australian nurses from World War I. Please add your ancestors to this project. Profiles must be set to public. This is an international project.==Nurses Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of l...
Apothecaries, Pharmacists & Chemists= from Wikipedia : Apothecary /əˈpɒθɪkəri/ is one term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica to physicians, surgeons and patients. The modern pharmacist (also colloquially referred to as a chemist in British English ) has taken over this role and in some languages and regions the word is still used to refer to a retail pharmac...
Apotek i Sverige 1500-1921 Syftet med detta projekt är att för släktforskare göra tillgängligt apotekare med familjer, som drivit apotek i Sverige. Profilerna måste därför vara offentliga. "Först på slutet af 1500-talet började apotek att anläggas i Sverige. De förste apotekarna voro i allmänhet tyskar och anlitades äfven såsom läkare. Mäster Lukas antogs af Gustaf I omkring 1552 att hålla a...
Is there a doctor in the house? Sometimes medical professions seem to run in families. Perhaps it's in the genes. Profiles to be added to this project are for people in the medical profession and their family members also in a medically related field . These can be medical doctors, dentists, therapists, pharmacists, nurses, technicians- anyone with a job or profession connected to health. Perha...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system mainly affecting the motor system. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement-related; these include shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement and difficulty with walking and gait. Later, thinking and behavioral problems may arise, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stag...
Women in Military Conflicts - Doctors, Nurses and othersThe object of this project is to assemble profiles of women who played a roll in Military conflicts - mainly Doctors and Nurses - who were involved in wars up to and including World War II.Early records indicate that nursing was originally conducted by monks and nuns of various religious orders. It was considered to be work of a spiritual ...
Notables with disabilitiesDefinition from the WHO: Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in inv...
This project will include people featured in (but is not limited to) James Ernst Gallagher's book Representative deaf persons of the United States of America (1898).Other deaf and hearing impaired people may be added to the project. If known, please identify the cause and age of hearing loss in the individual, as this information may help to identify genetic hearing loss in family trees.==Notab...
Please add the profiles of the chirurgeons, physicans, midwives, apothecaries and bonesetters who were our earliest doctors. Collaborators, feel free to update the page and add resource materials.== Please note: 40% of the physicians in the early colonies were women. Midwives at this time were considered doctors.===18th Century American Medicine===From: 18th Century England, there were three ma...
Please add Women who have influenced or are/have been pioneers in healthcare.==If you’ve received a blood transfusion, had lifesaving radiation therapy, experienced a natural birth or even lost weight by counting calories, you have used one of the many health innovations given to us by women in medicine. Women have influenced healthcare in many ways, both in direct & obvious ways (professional ...
ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. A-myo-trophic comes from the Greek language. "A" means no. "Myo" refers to muscle, and "Trophic" means nourishment – "No muscle nourishment." When a muscle has no nourishment, it "atrophies" or wastes away. "Lateral" identifies the areas in a person's spin...
Polio Survivors:= ==This project is for those who SURVIVED polio.==If they Died from Polio or a complication of Polio, please add them to: People Who Died from Polio (Polio) in the Cause of Death Portal Alternate Names: polio, poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis Tags : polio, poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, handicaps, paralysis, bone deformities, abortive poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis, often c...
Portal to Geni Project dedicated to medically related projects NO PROFILES please - Add profiles to the projects listed below instead This is an entree to indexed medically related projects on genealogy Geni, please add yours. Feel free to add headings, sub projects & resources. Please add Related projects & tags as needed. If you don’t find a heading that fits or you have a quest...
This project is on History Link Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Foundation for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine. One of five prizes bequested in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, it is an award for scientific progress through laboratory discoveries in experimental physio...
==Please add the profiles of those who died from starvation.== * Please feel free to create a related project * If a project is needed for the Cause of Death portal not listed, please see: Cause of Death Projects needed??? Tags: cause of death, starvation, malnutrition, medical, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, eating disorder, celiac disease, coma, diabetes mellitus, famine, Child/ Elder/ De...
PRESIDENTS 1782-1784 Edward Augustus Holyoke 1784-1786 William Kneeland 1786-1787 Edward Augustus Holyoke 1787-1795 Dr. Cotton Tufts 1795-1798 Samuel Danforth 1798-1804 Isaac Rand 1804-1815 Dr John Warren, M.D. 1815-1823 Joshua Fisher 1823 John Brooks 1825 1825-1832 Dr. James Jackson, Sr. 1832-1836 Dr. John Collins Warren 1836-1840 George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D.
Please add & index ONLY Universities & Colleges with medically related programs or courses.== This can include, but is not limited to: preparatory programs for physicians, chiropractors, veterinarians, dentists, pharmacists, all nursing occupations, etc; medical administration programs, allied health programs for administrative, supportive, therapeutic, and technological roles, such as medical ...
Please add the profiles of those who are or were a member of the US Air Force Nurse Corps.==* Please be sure to include a comment about the person's military membership in the About section.The U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps ensures the health of military personnel and their family members.Members of the Air Force Nurse Corps come from all aspects of Air Force Medicine and can serve in roles includ...
Please add projects & index “Schools” that DO NOT have college or university in their name.== This is for PROJECTS that cover ALL types of educational sources for medical/healthcare professions & occupations that DO NOT have college or university in their name. * This can include, but is not limited to: Schools for physicians, chiropractors, veterinarians, dentists, pharmacists, all nursing occ...
This is an umbrella for Medical Corps projects. Please do NOT add projects here. == If you do not see a project for your country’s Medical Corps, please consider creating one or put the need in the Medical Portal discussion @ Medical Portal project--Needs, questions, concerns & related issues From: Wikipedia - Medical Corps ===A medical corps is generally a military branch or officer corps resp...
This is an UMBRELLA project for ALL types of training for those in Medical fields.=* Feel free to add additional Resources. ==Please index projects to the appropriate category.====='If it is a "School" please add it to: Healthcare Education Portal for Medical & other Technical Schools ===* i.e. Mayo Clinic School of Medicine===If it is a project that has University or College in the title, plea...
The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population—making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in hu...
United States Army Nurse Corps (AN or ANC) was formally established by the U.S. Congress in 1901. It is one of the six medical special branches (or "corps") of officers which – along with medical enlisted soldiers – comprise the Army Medical Department (AMEDD).The ANC is the nursing service for the U.S. Army and provides highly qualified nursing staff in support of the Department of Defense med...