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Physician researchers Edgar Rey Sanabria and Héctor Martínez-Gómez developed the Kangaroo Mother Program in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1979, as an…
TechnologyBirth weight, LowInfant CareBreastfeedingMother and infantJohn George Children described several species of insects and animals while working at the British Museum in London, England, in the eighteenth and…
Electric batteriesPythonsIn 2010, US Congress enacted section 3509 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or ACA, to target issues relating to women’s health. The…
LawUnited States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care ActObamacareClinical TrialsWomen's health servicesMammography or mastography is an imaging technology used in the twentieth century for the detection of breast cancer and other breast abnormalities.…
TechnologyTomosynthesisBreast--RadiographyMammographyBreast--Cancer--Imaging--CongressesRoger Wolcott Sperry studied the function of the nervous system in the US during the twentieth century. He studied split-brain patterns in cats and…
Split brainCorpus callosumEpilepsySplit-Brain ProcedureNeuronsPriscilla White studied the treatment of diabetes in mothers, pregnant women, and children during the twentieth century in the US. White began…
DiabetesDiabetic childrenDiabetic angiopathies in childrenPregnancy in women with disabilitiesDiabetes in childrenIn 2013, Lois Uttley, Sheila Reynertson, Larraine Kenny, and Louise Melling published “Miscarriage of Medicine: The Growth of Catholic Hospitals and…
LiteratureAbortionBirth ControlCatholicReproductionTwentieth-century researcher Ernest John Christopher Polge studied the reproductive processes of livestock and determined a method to successfully…
Smith, Audrey U.Parkes, A. S. (Alan Sterling), 1900-1990National Institute for Medical Research (Great Britain)Medical Research Council (Great Britain)GlycerinIan Donald was an obstetrician who developed the technology and therapy of ultrasound diagnostics during the twentieth century in Europe. Ultrasound…
ObstetricsGynecologyRespiratory therapy for newborn infantsFetal MedicineRespiratory Distress SyndromeFrom 1951 to 2001, researchers at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, conducted the British Doctors’ Study, a study that examined the…
Doll, RichardHill, A. Bradford (Austin Bradford), 1897-1991Tobacco use--Health aspectsTobacco UseLungs--Cancer