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In 1901, physician William Henry Walling published the article, Some of the Uses of Electricity in Gynecology, in the January issue of the American…
LiteratureElectricity in medicineGynecologyElectrotherapeuticsElectrotherapyIn the 1960s, two plastic surgeons from the United States, Thomas Dillon Cronin and Frank Judson Gerow, collaborated with the Dow Corning Corporation…
TechnologyBreast ImplantsBreast implants--Law and legislationBreast implants--ComplicationsProducts liability--Breast implantsIn May 1953, scientists James Watson and Francis Crick wrote the article “Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid,”…
LiteratureDNANucleic AcidsDeoxyriboseGeneticsIn the 1971 court case United States v. Milan Vuitch, hereafter US v. Vuitch, the US Supreme Court ruled that a Washington, DC law was constitutional…
LawAbortionReproductive RightsContraceptionSexual rightsOn 6 May 1952, at King’s College London in London, England, Rosalind Franklin photographed her fifty-first X-ray diffraction pattern of…
LiteratureDNADNA HelicasesX Ray CrystallographyCrystallography, X-RayArnaud Fauconnier and Charles Chapron published “Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain: Epidemiological Evidence of the Relationship and Implications,”…
LiteratureEndometriosisEndometriumEndometrium--BiopsyLaparoscopyIn April 1953, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling, published “Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate,” in the scientific journal Nature.…
LiteratureDNADNA HelicasesX Ray CrystallographyMolecular structureIn 1994, Edward M. Connor and colleagues published “Reduction of Maternal-Infant Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 with Zidovudine…
LiteratureHIV-positive personsHIV infectionsHIV-positive womenHIV-positive childrenIn 2012, the production company Waddell Media Production released the documentary The Baby Makers. The four-part series, directed and produced by…
LiteratureFertilization in VitroInfertilityInfertility, FemaleFertilization in vitro, HumanLeuprolide acetate, or leuprorelin, is a manufactured drug that has been prescribed as a treatment for endometriosis, a medical condition in which…
EndometriosisEndometriumDrug utilizationDrugs--AdministrationUterus