10 women who influenced health

• April 20, 2024

Its role for centuries has been reduced to that of procreating, caring for and supporting others; However, there are women who have shown that they can give life, but through their knowledge and discoveries in areas dominated by men such as medicine.

In 1873, Matilde Petra Montoya would be the first Mexican woman to receive the title of midwife National School of Medicine ;  Rita Levi- Montalcini would receive in 1986 the Nobel Prize in Medicine to discover that the cells only begin their reproduction when they receive the order of substances called growth factors.

Women have not only collaborated in the ideology and in the way in which they live. His intervention has been so profound that thanks to it there are currently alternatives for the treatment of diseases such as meningitis; as well as a greater understanding of how a patient should be treated.

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