Women prominent

Fig. 1. Bone scan of a 75-year-old woman presented with acute onset of low back pain employing either Tc-medronate [25681-89-4] or Tc-oxidronate [14255-61-9]. The bone scan of (a) the anterior and (b) the posterior pelvis shows increased uptake in the region of the sacral bone (arrows). The bladder (arrowheads) is a normal route of tracer excretion and is also prominently identified in the image.

A 22-year-old woman engaging in a political protest goes on a hunger strike on a prominent corner in a city park. Although food is offered to her several times each day by social workers and the police, she refuses all offers except for water through the first 2 weeks. 

Julie Singer is a 55-year-old white woman who was admitted to the emergency department in acute distress. A previous physical examination showed hypertension and diabetes mellitus type 2. The patient s present medications include enalapril 40 mg, nifedipine 60 mg, and 100 U insulin. A physical examination revealed prominent ankle edema, a palpable spleen, and hepatomegaly. Chest radiography revealed diffuse cardiac enlargement and left ventricular hypertrophy. Based upon the history and clinical hndings, what is your diagnosis and what treatment do you recommend ... 

Where we have documentation, the women chemists readily acknowledge their appreciation of their supervisors, such as biochemist F. Gowland Hopkins (see Chap. 8), for allowing them to follow their chosen path in an environment where other prominent male chemists refused to countenance a woman student. 

In fact, the most prominent woman in analytical chemistry, Isabel Hodgson Hadfield,14 did not join the Society until 1944. Bom on 29 January 1893, her father a schoolmaster, Hadfield graduated from East London College (later Queen Mary College) in 1914. The following year, she obtained a Diploma of Education and became a Chemistry Mistress with the Birmingham Education Council. 

Five years ago when some of us petitioned the Council of the Chemical Society to admit us to the Fellowship, the agitation in favour of Woman Suffrage was not prominently before the public. 

During our time frame, the most prominent woman researcher in the Cambridge Chemistry Laboratories was the spectro-scopist, Delia Margaret Simpson.47 Bom on 5 February 1912 in London, the daughter of Robert Simpson, a sanitary inspector, and Delia Maud Pope, a teacher, she was educated at the Haberdashers Aske s Hatcham Girls School. Simpson entered Newnham in 1930, completing her studies in 1934. 

Another pioneer stalwart of the Association of Women Pharmacists, Elsie Hooper,68 bom in 1880, passed the Major examination in 1902. Hooper was probably one of the most prominent early women researchers in pharmacy.58 In 1901, she was the first woman to be awarded the Redwood Research Scholarship and in 1903, she was the first woman recipient of the Burroughs Research Scholarship. 

A 49-year-old woman had prominent stuttering before a generalized epileptic seizure and recovered after antiepileptic treatment (73). 

Catatonia occurred in a 61-year-old woman who was taking risperidone 5 mg/day for prominent paranoid delusions after a post-frontal lobotomy some 35 years ago. The catatonic disorder was dose-dependent and resolved immediately after changing to clozapine. 

After 25 days of treatment with continuous aldesleukin infusion (up to 150 000 units/kg/day) for stage IV Hodgkin s disease, a 26-year-old woman had increased fatigue, tachycardia, hypotension, and hypothermia. Echocardiography showed bilateral intraventricular masses. Her maximal absolute eosinophil count was 11.4 X 10 /1 and the platelet count was 17 x 10 /1. Despite aldesleukin withdrawal, her condition deteriorated and she died. Postmortem examination showed biventricular thrombi and prominent eosinophilic infiltration of the endomyocardium. 

A 40-year-old woman had multiple bone injuries, severe sepsis, and coma after a car accident a retroperitoneal hematoma caused by lumbar fractures was drained, but she continued to be pyrexial (23). She had prominent accumulation of Ga, which had been used for bone scanning, in her multiple recent fractures and an area of accumulation in the soft tissue related to a fractured vertebra. Post-traumatic paravertebral calcifications had accumulated Ga and simulated the presence of an infected hematoma. 

A dapsone syndrome was reported in a 30-year-old woman after 4 weeks of treatment with Maloprim and chloroquine base 300 mg/weekly. The symptoms comprised fever, joint and muscle pains, dry cough, and a diffuse red urticarial rash, followed by generalized lym-phadenopathy, a painful exudative tonsillitis, and a prominent atypical lymphocytosis. 

A 67-year-old woman with lymphoma presented with a neuromyopathy following treatment with laetrile. She had high blood and urinary thiocyanate and cyanide concentrations (7). Sural nerve biopsy specimen showed a mixed pattern of demyelination and axonal degeneration, the latter being prominent. Gastrocnemius muscle biopsy specimen showed a mixed pattern of denervation and myopathy with type II atrophy. 

Deaths from consumption of methylmercury-contaminated foods are well documented in outbreaks in Japan and Iraq, and lethal doses of 10-60 mg Hg/kg have been estimated from tissue concentrations (Bakir et al. 1973 Tsubaki and Takahashi 1986). Fatalities were attributed to central nervous system toxicity (Bakir et al. 1973 Tamashiro et al. 1984). Pneumonia and nonischemic heart disease were prominent secondary causes of death in the Japan epidemic (Tamashiro et al. 1984). Case reports of deaths associated solely with dermal mercury exposure to inorganic mercury are limited to a woman who died after inserting a mercuric chloride tablet into her vagina (Millar 1916) and a man who died after a 2-month treatment with a topical medicine containing mercurous chloride (Kang-Yum and Oransky... 

At an important university ceremony, Fritz Haber was scheduled to give the keynote speech. I assumed that Clara would be up front, recalled another scientist s wife. But she was hidden all the way in the back. He would have liked her to be more socially prominent. This same woman recalled her astonishment upon finding Clara one morning in the kitchen sitting with her domes-... 

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