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Diana W. Bianchi studied the medical treatment of premature and newborn infants in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bianchi…
Prenatal DiagnosisGeneticsSindell v. Abbott Laboratories was a 1980 California case that established the doctrine of market share liability for personal injury cases. For such…
LawDiethylstilbestrolMiscarriagePregnancy--ComplicationsPregnancyIn its 1993 decision Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the US Supreme Court established the Daubert Standard for evaluating the…
LawBendectin (Trademark)Morning SicknessSedativesAbnormalities, HumanWilliam Withey Gull studied paraplegia, anorexia, and hormones as a physician in England during the nineteenth century. In addition to caring for…
AnorexiaAnorexia NervosaIllness anxiety disorderThyroid HormonesThyroid GlandPublished in 1971, Adenocarcinoma of the Vagina: Association of Maternal Stilbestrol Therapy with Tumor Appearance in Young Women, by Arthurs L.…
LiteratureDiethylstilbestrolAdenocarcinomaCancerEstrogenIn the legal case In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation of the early 1980s, US military veterans of the Vietnam War sued the US chemical…
LawProducts liability--Agent OrangeAgent OrangeVeteransAgent Orange--ToxicologyEdward Charles Dodds researched the function and effects of natural and artificial hormones on the endocrine system in England during the twentieth…
Dodds, E. C. (Edward Charles), 1899-EndocrinologyEstrogenDiethylstilbestrolDiethylstilbestrol--CarcinogenicityIn 1948, Olive Watkins Smith published 'Diethylstilbestrol in the Prevention and Treatment of Complications of Pregnancy' in the American Journal…
LiteraturePregnancyEndocrine disrupting chemicalsHormonesObstetricsIn 1996, the US Congress mandated that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) create and regulate the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program.…
Endocrine disrupting chemicalsEndocrine toxicologyDevelopmental endocrinologyEndocrine SystemHormonesCharles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor…
Human Genome ProjectDNAfetal developmentFetusEmbryos