7 Black Women Who Made Medical History
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MadameNoire
Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston
Born 1939
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Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston has been championing for better healthcare access for poor and minority communities for much of her career. However, her most notable work has been in sickle-cell disease. In 1986, Dr. Gaston did a study on the disease that would ultimately lead to a screening test for sickle cell in infants, and early treatment.
Dr. Gaston was also the first Black woman to be a director of public health services at the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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