Filter my results
Search
Displaying 431 - 440 of 1147
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Visualize Fetal Abnormalities
By: Dasia Garcia
| Published: Jun 21, 2017
Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique to create a three-dimensional image of a fetus. Doctors often use MRIs to image a fetuses…
TechnologyMagnetic resonance imagingNuclear Magnetic ResonanceFetusDiagnostic ultrasonic imaging
Sidney Q. Cohlan (1915-1999)
By: Bianca Zietal, Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Jun 18, 2017
Sidney Q. Cohlan studied birth defects in the US during the twentieth century. Cohlan helped to discover that if a pregnant woman ate too much…
Abnormalities, HumanRetinoidsVitamin AHypervitaminosisTetracycline
Bernard Sachs (1858-1944)
By: Tiffany Nardi
| Published: May 31, 2017
Bernard Sachs studied nervous system disorders in children in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the late 1880s,…
Tay-Sachs DiseaseAmaurotic Familial IdiocyGangliosidosesNervous system--DegenerationNeurodegenerative Disorders
The Effectiveness of Phototherapy in Premature Infants (1968)
By: Arianna Bradley
| Published: Feb 23, 2017
In 1968, pediatric researchers Jerold Lucey, Mario Ferreiro, and Jean Hewitt conducted an experimental trial that determined that exposure to light…
PhototherapyJaundiceKernicterusBilirubinHyperbilirubinemia
Hans Asperger (1906-1980)
By: Alexandra Bohnenberger
| Published: Aug 27, 2016
Hans Asperger studied mental abnormalities in children in Vienna, Austria, in the early twentieth century. Asperger was one of the early…
Asperger's syndromeMental HealthPsychiatryChild psychiatryWorld Health Organization
The Mustard Operation
By: Daniella Caudle
| Published: Feb 17, 2017
The Mustard Operation is a surgical technique to correct a heart condition called the transposition of the great arteries (TGA). TGA is a birth…
TechnologyMustard, William T., 1914-1987Transposition of Great VesselsHospital for Sick ChildrenCyanosis
"Apoptosis: A Basic Biological Phenomenon with Wide-Ranging Implications in Tissue Kinetics" (1972), by John F. R. Kerr, Andrew H. Wyllie and Alastair R. Currie
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Jan 21, 2011
"Apoptosis: A Basic Biological Phenomenon with Wide-Ranging Implications in Tissue Kinetics" (hereafter abbreviated as "Apoptosis") was published in…
LiteratureApoptosisPublicationsCancerCell Death
Pregnancy Tests
By: Kristin Kelley
| Published: Sep 02, 2010
Throughout history methods involving urine have been a popular way to test for pregnancy. Early ideas ranged from simply observing the color of a…
TechnologyPregnancy TestsReproductionFertility
A Child Is Born (1965), by Lennart Nilsson
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Sep 17, 2013
Dell Publishing in New York City, New York, published Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born in 1966. The book was a translation of the Swedish version…
LiteraturedevelopmentPregnancyfetal developmentFetal Growth
Multi-Fetal Pregnancy
By: Corinne DeRuiter
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
In humans, multi-fetal pregnancy occurs when a mother carries more than one fetus during the pregnancy. The most common multi-fetal pregnancy is…
ReproductionFetusHuman Development