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Corpus Callosum Defects Associated with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Sep 07, 2010
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) can result in a continuum of developmental abnormalities that are highly variable depending on the severity,…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman DevelopmentFetus
Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Cerebellum Development
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Sep 06, 2010
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) results in a continuum of physical, neurological, behavioral, and learning defects collectively grouped under…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman Development
Pregnancy Tests
By: Kristin Kelley
| Published: Sep 02, 2010
Throughout history methods involving urine have been a popular way to test for pregnancy. Early ideas ranged from simply observing the color of a…
TechnologyPregnancy TestsReproductionFertility
Hysterectomy
By: Kristin Kelley
| Published: Sep 02, 2010
A hysterectomy is the surgical removal of a woman's uterus. For many women, a hysterectomy comes as a solution to health problems as diverse as…
TechnologyHysterectomyReproductionmedicine
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
Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells (UCBSC)
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells are hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) that are recovered from the blood of the umbilical cord and placenta after…
Cord Blood Stem Cell TransplantationReproductionStem Cellsmedicine
Johns Hopkins Fertility Center
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Johns Hopkins Medical Center, located in Baltimore, Maryland, opened in 1889; its associated medical school opened four years later. Today the…
OrganizationFertilityOrganizationsReproductionmedicine
The Birth Control Pill
By: Christina Raup
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
The birth control pill, more commonly known as "the pill" is a form of contraception taken daily in pill form and consisting of synthetic hormones…
ContraceptionReproductionReproductive Rights
Pope Pius IX (1792-1878)
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Pope Pius IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, marked his contribution to the abortion debate by removing the distinction between an "animated"…
PeoplereligionReproductionBiographyCatholicism
Birth Control or the Limitation of Offspring (1936), by William J. Robinson
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jul 01, 2010
Birth Control or the Limitation of Offspring was written by American eugenics and birth control advocate William J. Robinson. First published in 1916…
LiteratureContraceptionPublicationsReproduction