From left, Dr. Charles H. Slocumb, Dr. Howard F. Polley, Dr. Edward C. Kendall and Dr. Philip S. Hench in Kendall’s Mayo Clinic Lab in 1950.

Little did he know that things were about to take a turn for the better, thanks to his collaboration with an American physician named Philip Hench, who, along with Kendall, was being supplied with ...

Hench and Susan Hench Bowis were the only living children linked to a family steeped in the city's history and lore: As scions of Mayo Clinic physician Dr. Philip Hench, winner of the 1950 Nobel ...

It was discovered in the 1940s by Mayo Clinic researchers Edward Kendall, Ph.D., and Philip Hench, M.D., who first used it to treat joint disorders. Its powerful anti-inflammatory effect produced ...

Philip Hench was awarded Nobel Prize in medicine in 1950 for demonstrating the therapeutic value of cortisone (factor E) derived from animal adrenal cortex in management of rheumatoid arthritis.

HENCH, PHILIP KAHLER Dr. Philip Kahler Hench was born on September 19, 1930, and passed away at the age of 79 on October 28, 2009, following a struggle with Lewy Body disease. Kahler is survived ...