Andrea Dalzell is the first-ever wheelchair-using nurse in the state of New York. Popularly referred to as “The Seated Nurse,” hers is a captivating tale of a relentless African-American woman ...

Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder ... humankind’s place and purpose within it.” Ismail, the first African woman to win the prize, “has used the teachings of her faith ...

ICU nurse Michelle Moffatt slipped into depression ... left paralysed below the waist following complications and was left wheelchair-bound. The mum-of-four became convinced that she had become ...

The 72-year-old is the longest-serving nurse at London's Central Middlesex ... represent Ghana in the 1976 Games in Montreal but then African nations boycotted it," she explained.

Ms Chambers - who is from Devon and previously worked for the NHS as a nurse - already holds the world records for the fastest full and half marathons in a non-sport wheelchair. Image caption ...