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Pope Pius XI (1857-1939)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was born to the wealthy owner of a silk factory on 31 May 1857 in Desio, Italy. He was ordained to…
PeoplereligionReproductionCatholicismPopes
Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926)
By: James Walter Dennert
| Published: May 07, 2021
Emil Kraepelin was a physician who studied people with mental illness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in modern-day Germany.…
Comparative psychiatryMental illnessMental DisordersDual diagnosisMental illness--Bibliography
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
By: Nathalie Antonios
| Published: Mar 24, 2011
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) involves testing for specific genetic conditions prior to the implantation of an embryo in the uterine wall.…
TechnologyPreimplantation DiagnosisReproductionFertilizationgenetic testing
St. Augustine (354-430)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
St. Augustine of Hippo, born Aurelius Augustinus to a respectable family in the year 354 CE, is now considered one of the foremost theologians in the…
PeoplereligionBiographyCatholicismFetus
Ernest Armstrong McCulloch (1926–2011)
By: Akaash Surendra
| Published: Jun 19, 2025
Ernest Armstrong McCulloch was a medical researcher who studied the biology of blood cells and blood cancer in Toronto, Ontario, in the second half…
Hematopoietic Stem CellsHematopoiesisLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteScientists--BiographyAcute myeloid leukemia
Leo Kanner (1894-1981)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Apr 30, 2014
Leo Kanner studied and described early infantile autism in humans in the US during the twentieth century. Though Eugen Bleuler first coined the term…
AutismAutism in children
The Mothers' Clinic
By: Ellen M. DuPont
| Published: Jul 22, 2008
The Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control was established on 17 March 1921. The first family planning clinic ever established in Great…
OrganizationContraceptionOrganizationsReproductionReproductive Rights
"Maternal consumption of peanut during pregnancy is associated with peanut sensitization in atopic infants" (2010), by Scott Sicherer, et al.
By: Maggie Pingolt
| Published: Jan 30, 2013
In 2010, a team of US researchers concluded that the more peanuts a pregnant woman ate during her pregnancy, the more likely her newborn was to be…
ExperimentsReproductionPregnancyFetus
Norbert Freinkel (1926–1989)
By: Blaise Castagnetti
| Published: Jan 16, 2018
During the twentieth century, Norbert Freinkel studied hormones and diabetes in the US. Freinkel conducted many experiments that enabled him to…
Diabetes MellitusPregnancy in DiabeticsThyroid GlandThyroid HormonesRespiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958)
By: Ellen M. DuPont
| Published: Jul 10, 2008
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 15 October 1880 to Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a suffragist, and Henry Stopes…
Peoplepublic healthethicsReproductionBiography