Filter my results
The Vaginal Microbiome Consortium, or the VMC, established in 2007, consists of a group of researchers, clinicians, statisticians, and geneticists…
Female Urogenital DiseasesPremature BirthMicrobiotaVaginaWomen’s health servicesIn 1999, the Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, hereafter the IAWG, wrote the Minimum Initial Services Package, hereafter…
LiteratureRefugee campsChildbirthBirthHIVIn 2010, Albert L. Hsu, Izebella Khchikyan, and Pamela Stratton published “Invasive and Non-invasive Methods for the Diagnosis of Endometriosis,”…
LiteratureEndometriosisEndometriumEndometrium--BiopsyLaparoscopyIn 1973, Ronald Ericsson developed the Ericsson method, which is a technique used to separate human male sperm cells by their genetic material.…
TechnologySex ChromosomesGonosomesSpermSpermatozoaIn the 1994 article “The ‘Kangaroo-Method’ for Treating Low Birth Weight Babies in a Developing Country,” authors Nils Bergman and Agneta Jürisoo…
LiteratureInfant CareMother and infantInfants--Care--AfricaZimbabweIn 2004 Mark Landon and his colleagues in the United States published “Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Associated with a Trial of Labor after Prior…
LiteratureVaginal Birth after CesareanCesarean SectionUterine RuptureTrial of LaborEstrogen is the primary sex hormone in women and it functions during the reproductive menstrual cycle. Women have three major types of estrogen:…
Menstrual CycleOral contraceptivesEstrogenEstradiolEstroneMatthew Kaufman was a professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, UK, who specialized in mouse anatomy, development, and…
Stem cells--ResearchStem CellsEmbryology, ExperimentalEmbryologyAnatomyNational Geographic's documentary In the Womb: Identical Twins focuses on the prenatal development of human identical twins. Director Lorne Townend…
LiteratureTwinsDocumentary filmsTestosteroneMethylationJohn Hilton Edwards first described the symptoms of the genetic disorder known as Trisomy 18 - one of the most common forms of trisomy, which occurs…
TrisomyFetusCongenital DisordersHuman Development