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Solomon A. Berson (1918-1972)
By: Jennifer R. Craer
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
Solomon A. Berson helped develop the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique in the US during the twentieth century. Berson made many scientific…
ImmunoassayRadioimmunoassayIsotopesPhysiologyNuclear Medicine
Recombinant Gonadotropins Used in Fertility Treatments
By: Alison Lane
| Published: Oct 26, 2020
First manufactured in 1988 by Serono laboratories, recombinant gonadotropins are synthetic hormones that can stimulate egg production in women for…
TechnologyRecombination, GeneticGenetic recombination--ResearchLuteinizing HormoneGonadotropin
“Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain: Epidemiological Evidence of the Relationship and Implications” (2005), by Arnaud Fauconnier and Charles Chapron
By: Anna Guerrero, Emily Santora
| Published: Nov 30, 2019
Arnaud Fauconnier and Charles Chapron published “Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain: Epidemiological Evidence of the Relationship and Implications,”…
LiteratureEndometriosisEndometriumEndometrium--BiopsyLaparoscopy
Diethylstilbestrol (DES) in the US
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Mar 23, 2015
Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is an artificially created hormone first synthesized in the late 1930s. Doctors widely prescribed DES first to pregnant…
DiethylstilbestrolDiethylstilbestrol--Side effectsDiethylstilbestrol--CarcinogenicityPregnancyEstrogen
“Women’s Right to Know” Informed Consent Informational Materials
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Jun 10, 2021
As of 2021, twenty-eight US states have informed consent laws for abortion, which is a medical procedure to terminate pregnancy, often called Women’s…
AbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionInformed ConsentGynecology
Amenorrhea as a Menstrual Disorder
By: Emily Santora
| Published: Aug 03, 2021
Amenorrhea is considered a type of abnormal menstrual bleeding characterized by the unexpected absence of menstrual bleeding, lasting three months or…
Amenorrhea, PrimaryMenstruation disordersMenstrual CyclePolycystic ovary syndromeBirth Control
Litowitz v. Litowitz [Brief] (2002)
By: Brock Heathcotte
| Published: May 09, 2008
Pursuant to an express provision of the embryo disposition contract they both signed, a husband and wife had to petition the court for instructions…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilization
Zhang Lizhu (1921- )
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Aug 16, 2011
Zhang Lizhu is a Chinese gynecologist and researcher. For most of her career, she worked in the Peking Medical College Third Hospital, renamed in…
PeopleReproductionBiographyFertilization
Assisted Human Reproduction Act (2004)
By: Kathleen Hammond
| Published: Jul 30, 2015
The Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act) is a piece of federal legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada. The Act came into force on 29…
LawReproductive technologyFertilization in vitro, Human--Law and legislationMedicine--Research--Law and legislationBiomedical Ethics