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“The Infectious Origins of Stillbirth” (2003) by Robert L. Goldenberg and Cortney Thompson
By: Ajeet Bains
| Published: Mar 23, 2022
In September 2003, Robert L. Goldenberg and Cortney Thompson published the article “The Infectious Origins of Stillbirth” in the American Journal of…
LiteratureFetal deathInfectionQ FeverMalaria in pregnancy
Women’s Right to Know Act (2019) by Americans United for Life
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Jun 23, 2021
In 2019, Americans United for Life, hereafter AUL, published a model legislation, called the Women’s Right to Know Act, in their annual publication…
LiteratureAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionMaternal-Fetal Medicine
Horatio Robinson Storer (1830–1922)
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Sep 21, 2020
Horatio Robinson Storer was a surgeon and anti-abortion activist in the 1800s who worked in the field of women’s reproductive health and led the…
PeopleAbortionAbortion servicesPro-life movementPro-life movement--United States
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (2016)
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Dec 12, 2017
In the 2016 case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the US Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the Texas requirements that abortion providers have…
LawBirth control clinicsAbortionFamily planning servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United States
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Visualize Fetal Abnormalities
By: Dasia Garcia
| Published: Jun 21, 2017
Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique to create a three-dimensional image of a fetus. Doctors often use MRIs to image a fetuses…
TechnologyMagnetic resonance imagingNuclear Magnetic ResonanceFetusDiagnostic ultrasonic imaging
Leon Chesley (1908-2000)
By: Sarah Patel
| Published: Jun 19, 2017
Leon Chesley studied hypertension, or high blood pressure, in pregnant women during the mid-twentieth century. Chesley studied preeclampsia and…
PreeclampsiaEclampsiaHypertensionObstetricsPregnancy
Evaluation of the Newborn Infant--Second Report (1958), by Virginia Apgar et al.
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Jun 10, 2017
Virginia Apgar and colleagues wrote “Evaluation of the Newborn Infant—Second Report” in 1958. This article explained that Apgar’s system for…
LiteratureApgar ScoreObstetricsChildbirthAnesthesiology
William Smellie (1697–1763)
By: Yvette Tran
| Published: May 30, 2017
William Smellie helped to incorporate scientific medicine into the process of childbirth in eighteenth century Britain. As a male physician…
MidwivesObstetrical ForcepsChildbirthObstetricsLabor (Obstetrics)
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (1929–1970)
By: Yvette Tran
| Published: May 29, 2017
Starting in 1929, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was a professional association of physicians in the UK that aimed to improve…
OrganizationWomen's health servicesGynecologyObstetricsContraception
"The Familial Factor in Toxemia of Pregnancy" (1968), by Leon C. Chesley, et al.
By: Sarah Patel
| Published: Mar 16, 2017
In the 1950s and 1960s, researchers Leon Chesley, John Annitto, and Robert Cosgrove investigated the possible familial factor for the conditions of…
Chesley, Leon C., 1908-2000PreeclampsiaEclampsiaMargaret Hague Maternity Hospital (Jersey City, N.J.)Pregnancy