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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
John Hunter (1728–1793)
By: Nevada Wagoner
| Published: Feb 17, 2017
John Hunter studied human reproductive anatomy, and in eighteenth century England, performed one of the earliest described cases of artificial…
Artificial InseminationDeadBody snatchingPregnancyAnatomy
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943)
By: Corey Harbison
| Published: Feb 17, 2017
Karl Landsteiner studied blood types in Europe and in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Landsteiner won the…
Rh factorRhesus MonkeyBlood GroupsBlood CellsBlood Transfusions
Eugen Steinach (1861–1944)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna, Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
Eugen Steinach researched sex hormones and their effects on mammals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe. He experimented…
Hormones, SexGenerative organsGenital OrgansGonadal Steroid HormonesTesticular Hormones
The Effects of Gene Regulation on Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans (2003)
By: Dasia Garcia
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
In 2003, molecular biology and genetics researchers Coleen T. Murphy, Steven A. McCarroll, Cornelia I. Bargmann, Andrew Fraser, Ravi S. Kamath, Julie…
Caenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditisInsulin-like growth factor-binding proteinsIGF-Binding ProteinsGenetic regulation
The Apgar Score (1953-1958)
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
In 1952 Virginia Apgar, a physician at the Sloane Women’s Hospital in New York City, New York, created the Apgar score as a method of evaluating…
Apgar, Virginia, 1909-1974ObstetricsAnesthesiologySloane Hospital for Women (New York, N.Y.)Cesarean Section
Virginia Apgar (1909–1974)
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women’s pain during childbirth, in the US in the mid-…
Apgar, Virginia, 1909-1974Apgar ScorePregnancyObstetricsChildbirth
“Elective Induction of Labor” (1955), by Edward Bishop
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
In 1955, obstetrician Edward Bishop, a physician specializing in childbirth, published the article “Elective Induction of Labor,” in which he…
LiteratureReproductionChildbirthLabor, Induced (Obstetrics)Obstetrics
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)
John Chassar Moir (1900–1977)
By: Dorothy Haskett, Patsy Ciardullo
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
John Chassar Moir lived in Scotland during the twentieth century and helped develop techniques to improve the health of pregnant women. Moir helped…
ObstetricsPregnancyErgot AlkaloidsHemorrhageVagina