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Menopause
By: Megha Pillai
| Published: Aug 26, 2024
Menopause is defined as the point in time exactly twelve months after a female has had her last menstrual period, or shedding of the lining of the…
MenopausePremenopausepostmenopauseEstrogen Replacement TherapyHormone Replacement Therapy, Post-Menopausal
“Is Neisseria gonorrhoeae Initiating a Future Era of Untreatable Gonorrhea?: Detailed Characterization of the First Strain with High-Level Resistance to Ceftriaxone” (2011), by Makoto Ohnishi, Daniel Golparian, Ken Shimuta, Takeshi Saika, et al.
By: Eboni E. Andersun
| Published: Aug 20, 2024
In July 2011, Makoto Ohnishi and colleagues published the article “Is Neisseria gonorrhoeae Initiating a Future Era of Untreatable Gonorrhea?:…
GonorrheaSexually Transmitted Diseases, BacterialSexually Transmitted DiseasesVenereal DiseasesSexually Transmitted Infections
“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
Gender-affirming Mastectomy
By: Riley McInnis
| Published: Nov 10, 2022
Gender-affirming mastectomy is a type of surgery that removes breast tissue, tightens the skin, and can adjust nipple placement to provide the…
TechnologyTransgender menTransgender youthTransgender ChildrenTransphobia
Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy, Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Oct 13, 2016
Margaret Higgins Sanger advocated for birth control in the United States and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…
Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaBirth ControlContraceptionReproductive RightsArizona
Essay: Homology
By: Ingo Brigandt
| Published: Nov 23, 2011
Homology is a central concept of comparative and evolutionary biology, referring to the presence of the same bodily parts (e.g., morphological…
Homology (Biology)Morphology
Essay: The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Oct 07, 2013
In 1830, a dispute erupted in the halls of lÕAcad mie des Sciences in Paris between the two most prominent anatomists of the nineteenth century.…
EssayAnimals--ClassificationCuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832AnatomyBiological Evolution