Dr Katherina Dalton added to biography dictionary
20 Jan 2008
Dr Katharina Dalton, one of the first doctors to help define PMS has been added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a national archive of Britons who have left their mark on society.
Dr Dalton (shown second on the left, back) was the first doctor to link menstrual health and behaviour in women during her research at Holloway Prison which found that 49 per cent of newly-committed inmates had been sentenced for crimes committed in the four days before or during menstruation. It was in response to her pioneering work that NAPS was founded and PMS sufferers everywhere are able to gain the help and advice so desperately needed.She joins 211 other new entrants including broadcasters John Peel and Alistair Cooke, Sir Peter Ustinov and football manager Brian Clough.
