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“The Treatment of Early Syphilis with Penicillin: A Preliminary Report of 1418 Cases” (1944), by Joseph Earle Moore, J. F. Mahoney, Walter Schwartz, Thomas Sternberg, and W. Barry Wood
By: Srivatsan Swaminathan
| Published: Aug 13, 2024
In 1944, Joseph Earl Moore and colleagues published “The Treatment of Early Syphilis with Penicillin: A Preliminary Report of 1418 Cases,” hereafter…
SyphilisTreponema pallidumPenicillinsAntibiotics, PenicillinPenicillin
Philippe Ricord (1800–1889)
By: Eboni E. Andersun
| Published: Aug 26, 2024
Philippe Ricord was a nineteenth-century physician and surgeon in France who studied syphilis and demonstrated that it is different from gonorrhea.…
SyphilisGonorrheaSexually Transmitted DiseasesChancreReproductive Health
Hideyo Noguchi (1876–1928)
By: Srivatsan Swaminathan
| Published: May 30, 2024
Hideyo Noguchi researched bacteria, including Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis, in Japan and the US during the early 1900s.…
SyphilisNeurosyphilisCentral Nervous System SyphilisTreponema pallidumYellow Fever
Understanding and Treating Gonorrhea from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century
By: Eboni E. Andersun
| Published: Jul 08, 2024
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease, or STD, caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Common symptoms of the disease include painful…
GonorrheaNeisseria gonorrhoeaeUrinationSyphilisPelvic Inflammatory Disease
Penicillin
By: Srivatsan Swaminathan
| Published: Aug 12, 2024
Penicillin is a type of drug called an antibiotic that can treat bacterial infections by killing the bacteria or making it difficult for the bacteria…
Antibiotics, PenicillinStaphylococcusAntibacterial Drug ResistanceSyphilisDrug Development
What Every Girl Should Know (1916), by Margaret Sanger
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Dec 12, 2017
What Every Girl Should Know was published in 1916 in New York City, New York, as a compilation of articles written by Margaret Sanger from 1912 to…
LiteratureObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinics
45 CFR 46: Protection of Human Subjects under United States Law (1974)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jun 17, 2010
In the United States, the Code of Federal Regulations Title 45: Public Welfare, part 46 (45 CFR 46) provides protection for human subjects in…
LawGovernmentFetus
“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
Pearl Luella Kendrick (1890–1980)
By: Maggie Zhou
| Published: Dec 23, 2022
Pearl Luella Kendrick researched prevention for pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the mid-1900s.…
Tuberculosis VaccinesPertussis vaccinesAmerican Public Health AssociationPublicationsViral vaccines
Teratogens
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Jan 22, 2014
Teratogens are substances that may produce physical or functional defects in the human embryo or fetus after the pregnant woman is exposed to the…
Abnormalities, HumanFetusPregnancyTeratogenicity testingEmbryos