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Laparoscopic Tubal Sterilization
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Aug 26, 2024
Laparoscopic tubal sterilization is a set of surgical techniques that use laparoscopy to render people with female reproductive systems sterile, or…
Female SterilizationReproductive SterilizationSterilization, ReproductiveReproductive System, FemaleLaparoscopy
Bernadine Healy (1944–2011)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Nov 08, 2017
During the twentieth century in the United States, Bernadine Patricia Healy was a cardiologist who served as the first female director of the…
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)Harvard Medical SchoolMyocardial Infarction
“Congenital Heart Disease in Patients with Turner’s Syndrome” (1998), by Laura Mazzanti, Emanuele Cacciari, and the Italian Study Group for Turner Syndrome
By: Megha Pillai
| Published: Jun 25, 2024
In 1998, researchers Laura Mazzanti and Emanuele Cacciari published “Congenital Heart Disease in Patients with Turner’s Syndrome,” hereafter “…
Turner SyndromeTurner’s syndromeHeart Defects Congenital Heart DefectsGenetic Diseases
The Milky Way (2014)
By: Jessica Cartwright
| Published: Jul 17, 2019
On 26 April 2014, Gravitas Ventures released the documentary The Milky Way, a film directed by Jon Fitzgerald that compares breastfeeding in the US…
LiteratureBreastfeeding promotionDocumentary-style filmsBreast FeedingBreastfeeding
The Sex Education of Children: A Book for Parents (1931), by Mary Ware Dennett
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: May 24, 2017
Mary Coffin Ware Dennett, a supporter of sex education for children in the US in the early twentieth century, wrote The Sex Education of Children: A…
LiteratureCommunication in reproductive healthSex EducationSex instruction for youthSex instruction--United States
Bowen v. Kendrick (1988)
By: Rohini Nott
| Published: Feb 26, 2021
On 29 June 1988, in Bowen v. Kendrick, the US Supreme Court ruled in a five-to-four decision that the 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act, or AFLA, was…
LawFreedom of religionChurch and stateCourts of last resortSex Education
George Otto Gey (1899-1970)
By: Madeleine Zheng
| Published: Mar 21, 2022
George Otto Gey was a scientist in the US who studied cells and cultivated the first continuous human cell line in 1951. Gey derived the cells for…
HeLa CellsCell MovementKB CellsCell CommunicationCulture Media, Conditioned
Studies of Thalidomide's Effects on Rodent Embryos from 1962-2008
By: Joanna Yang, Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Mar 07, 2014
Thalidomide is a sedative drug introduced to European markets on 1 October 1957 after extensive testing on rodent embryos to ensure its safety. Early…
ContextTeratogenicity testingAbnormalities, HumanThalidomide--Side effectsThalidomide
Menstrual Hygiene Management in Low-Income Countries
By: Emily Santora
| Published: Jul 16, 2021
Menstrual hygiene management, or MHM, is a concept that concerns girls' and women’s access to the appropriate information and resources to manage…
MenstruationMenstruation--Social aspectsFeminine Hygiene ProductsUNICEFUnited Nations and non-member nations
Mesenchyme
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Sep 14, 2012
Mesenchyme is a type of animal tissue comprised of loose cells embedded in a mesh of proteins and fluid, called the extracellular matrix. The loose,…
MesenchymeGastrulationStem CellsMesenchymal Stem CellsEmbryology