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US Regulatory Response to Thalidomide (1950-2000)
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Apr 01, 2014
Thalidomide, a drug capable of causing fetal abnormalities (teratogen), has caused greater than ten thousand birth defects worldwide since its…
ContextThalidomideThalidomide--Side effectsTeratogenicity testingMultiple Myeloma
Ian Hector Frazer (1953– )
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Sep 02, 2020
Ian Hector Frazer studied the human immune system and vaccines in Brisbane, Australia, and helped invent and patent the scientific process and…
PeopleHIV infectionsHIV-positive personsHIV (Viruses)Vaccines industry
“Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Health Personnel of Maternities in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV...” (2018), by Elie Nkwabong, Romuald Meboulou Nguel, Nelly Kamgaing, and Anne Sylvie Keddi Jippe
By: Alexis Darby, Sierra Hope Jones
| Published: Apr 06, 2021
In 2018, researchers Elie Nkwabong, Romuald Meboulou Nguel, Nelly Kamgaing, and Anne Sylvie Keddi Jippe published, “Knowledge, Attitudes, and…
LiteratureHIV-positive womenHIV-positive childrenHIV (Viruses)HIV infections
Embryo Blotting Paper Models
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Nov 17, 2010
Anatomical models have always been a mainstay of descriptive embryology. As the training of embryologists grew in the late 1800s, so too did the need…
TechnologyModelsEducation
“Adherence to Combination Prophylaxis for Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV in Tanzania” (2011), by Inga Kristen, Julius Sewangi, Andrea Kunz, Festo Dugange, Judith Ziske, Brigitte Jordan-Harder, Gundel Harms, and Stefanie Theuring
By: Sierra Hope Jones
| Published: Apr 03, 2021
In 2011, Inga Kristen, Julius Sewangi, Andrea Kunz, Festo Dugange, Judith Ziske, Brigitte Jordan-Harder, Gundel Harms, and Stefanie Theuring…
LiteratureHIV-positive womenHIV (Viruses)Human Immunodeficiency VirusesHIV infections
Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Basal Ganglia Development
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Apr 24, 2011
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) in human and animal models results in a range of alcohol-induced developmental defects. In humans, those…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman Development
“Cesarean Section -- A Brief History” (1993), by Jane Eliot Sewell
By: Kelly Roberts
| Published: Jun 27, 2024
Jane Eliot Sewell presented “Cesarean Section--A Brief History” in 1993 as a brochure in the National Library of Medicine’s exhibit on the history of…
Cesarean SectionAbdominal DeliveryMidwivesRicketsAnesthesia
The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics (1924), by Paul Kammerer
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Mar 31, 2015
The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics is a book published in 1924, written by Paul Kammerer, who studied developmental biology in Vienna,…
LiteratureInheritance of acquired charactersEvolution (Biology)adaptationsLaboratory animals--Breeding--Experiments
The Time Has Come: A Catholic Doctor's Proposals to End the Battle over Birth Control (1963), by John Rock
By: Christina Raup
| Published: Jun 10, 2010
In 1963, Roman Catholic fertility doctor John Rock published The Time Has Come: A Catholic Doctor's Proposals to End the Battle over Birth Control, a…
LiteratureContraceptionPublicationsreligionReproduction
Richard Doll (1912–2005)
By: Phil Gaetano
| Published: Sep 20, 2017
Richard Doll was an epidemiologist and public figure in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Working primarily at the University of Oxford…
Tobacco UseCigarette SmokingCarcinogenesisLung Cancersmoking