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“General Considerations for the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs” (1977), by the United States Food and Drug Administration
By: Caroline Meek
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
The United States Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, published 'General Considerations for the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs,' in September 1977.…
LiteratureUnited States. Food and Drug AdministrationClinical TrialsDrugsPharmaceuticals
Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose (1970), by David M. Rorvik and Landrum B. Shettles
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
In the book Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose, David Michael Rorvik and Landrum Brewer Shettles describe methods that couples can use prior to and…
LiteratureSex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningGender
Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: May 27, 2009
Established under the Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Act of 2004, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC), also known as the Assisted Human…
OrganizationReproductive Techniques, AssistedOrganizationsReproductionReproductive Rights
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921)
By: Jonathan LaTourelle
| Published: Jun 01, 2015
Petr Kropotkin proposed the theory of Pleistocene ice age, alternative theories of evolution based on embryology, and he advocated anarchist and…
EvolutionHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersPaleogeography--PleistoceneAnarchism
Amniocentesis Prior to 1980
By: Kristin Kelley
| Published: Sep 02, 2010
The extraembryonic membranes that surround and originate from the embryos of vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, and mammals are crucial to their…
AmniocentesisReproductionFetus
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Jun 25, 2010
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (ACT) is a biotechnology company that uses stem cell technology to develop novel therapies in the field of…
OrganizationStem CellsOrganizationsReproductionRegeneration
“Miscarriage of Medicine: The Growth of Catholic Hospitals and the Threat to Reproductive Health Care” (2013), by Lois Uttley, Sheila Reynertson, Larraine Kenny, and Louise Melling
By: Claire Cleveland
| Published: Feb 18, 2018
In 2013, Lois Uttley, Sheila Reynertson, Larraine Kenny, and Louise Melling published “Miscarriage of Medicine: The Growth of Catholic Hospitals and…
LiteratureAbortionBirth ControlCatholicReproduction
The National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC)
By: Cassidy Possehl
| Published: May 31, 2017
Audrey Heimler and colleagues founded the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) in 1979 in New Hyde Park in New York, New York. Her stated…
OrganizationGenetic counselorsGenetic CounselingFragile X SyndromeOrganizations
Human Embryonic Stem Cells
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Sep 13, 2010
Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that are capable of dividing for long periods of time and can give rise to specialized cells under particular…
Stem CellsReproductiondifferentiationHuman Development
York v. Jones (1989)
By: Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Oct 07, 2013
In the case York v. Jones (1989), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia was one of the first US courts to address a…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroConceptionAbortion