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NovaSure Endometrial Ablation
By: Emily Santora
| Published: Sep 20, 2019
NovaSure is a device for endometrial ablation, which is a procedure that removes the endometrium, that the US Food and Drug Administration, or FDA,…
TechnologyReproductionMenstruationWomen's health servicesmedical technology
The Shettles Method of Sex Selection
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Apr 03, 2019
In the 1960s in the United States Landrum B. Shettles developed the Shettles method, which is a procedure for couples to use prior to and during an…
TechnologySex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningSex Chromosomes
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
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound (1873-1906)
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: May 20, 2017
First marketed in the US 1875, Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was an herbal medicine used by women to relieve menstrual discomfort and menopausal…
TechnologyReproductive HealthPatent MedicinesHerbs--Therapeutic useFertility
The Infant Incubator in Europe (1860-1890)
By: Kelsey Locey
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
In the nineteenth century, obstetricians in Europe began to construct devices to incubate infants in increasingly controlled environments. The infant…
TechnologyPremature InfantsObstetricsMaternal and infant welfareIncubators (Pediatrics)
James Marion Sims's Treatment of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Apr 12, 2013
James Marion Sims developed a treatment for vesico-vaginal fistulas in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1840s. Vesico-vaginal fistulas were a relatively…
TechnologySpeculum (Medicine)Fistula, Vesico-vaginalSurgeryGynecology
2D Obstetric Ultrasound
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
The development of the obstetric ultrasound has allowed physicians and embryologists to obtain a clear picture of the developing human embryo and…
TechnologyUltrasonographyReproductionmedicineHuman Development
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
Zygote Intrafallopian Transfer
By: Tian Zhu
| Published: Jan 31, 2011
Zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT) is an assisted reproductive technology (ART) first used in 1986 to help those who are infertile conceive a…
TechnologyZygote Intrafallopian TransferReproductionFertilization
Cord Blood Banking
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Nov 17, 2010
Cord blood banks are institutions designed to store umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells. UCB, a source of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), has…
TechnologyFetal BloodCord Blood Stem Cell TransplantationReproductionStem Cells