{"id":32197,"date":"2021-10-14T12:47:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T12:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=32197"},"modified":"2021-10-14T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T12:47:15","slug":"un-honours-henrietta-lacks-whose-cells-transformed-medical-research-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/14\/un-honours-henrietta-lacks-whose-cells-transformed-medical-research-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"UN honours Henrietta Lacks, whose cells transformed medical research worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32198\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Henrietta-Lacks-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Henrietta-Lacks-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Henrietta-Lacks-770x379.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Henrietta-Lacks-500x246.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Henrietta-Lacks-360x177.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Henrietta-Lacks.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Wednesday, the UN World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, recognized her world-changing legacy with a special award.\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaldiasporanews.com\/un-honours-henrietta-lacks-whose-cells-transformed-medical-research-worldwide\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>This Wednesday, the UN World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, recognized her world-changing legacy with a special award.\u00a0 \u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Henrietta-Lacks.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32199,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32197\/revisions\/32199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}