We investigate the curious, charged circumstances surrounding the resignation of the director of pediatrics at Columbia University s Babies Hospital, and one pathologist at the center of it all: Dorothy Andersen.
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health officials Monday announced an update to the visitation policies at the hospital and Women & Babies Hospital, permitting limited visitation for COVID-19 positive patients.
When physician and pathologist Dorothy Andersen confronted a slew of confounding infant deaths, she suspected the accepted diagnosis wasn’t right. Her medical sleuthing led to the world’s understanding of cystic fibrosis, a disease that affects the lungs, the pancreas and a host of other organs. But she is by no means a household name. Who was this scientist, and how did she come to quietly make such an important medical contribution? This is the Lost Women of Science podcast