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Menstrual Tampon
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: May 25, 2020
Menstrual tampons are feminine hygiene devices, usually made of absorbent cotton, that are temporarily inserted into the vagina for absorbing a woman…
TechnologyTamponsTampons--ComplicationsMenstruationMenstrual Cycle
“Annual Research Review: Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology: An Evolutionary Perspective” (2011), by Vivette Glover
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: May 02, 2020
In 2011, fetal researcher Vivette Glover published “Annual Research Review: Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology: An Evolutionary…
LiteratureStress in adolescenceStress in youthPsychological StressPregnancy
“Mothers’ Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children” (2009), by Hannah Cookson, Raquel Granell, Carol Joinson, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, and A. John Henderson
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: May 02, 2020
In 2009, A. John Henderson and colleagues published “Mothers’ Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children,” hereafter, “…
LiteratureAnxietyAsthmaBronchial AsthmaAsthma in children
The Impact of the Safe Motherhood Initiative from 1987 to 2000
By: Emily Santora
| Published: May 02, 2020
In 1987, the World Health Organization, or WHO, took action to improve the quality of maternal health around the world through the declaration of the…
PregnancyGestationPoorLow-income parentsMothers--Mortality
Medical Vibrators for Treatment of Female Hysteria
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Feb 29, 2020
During the late 1800s through the early 1900s, physicians administered pelvic massages involving clitoral stimulation by early electronic vibrators…
Vibrators (Massage)VibratorsHysteriaHysteria--Early works to 1900Orgasm
Breast Augmentation Techniques
By: Margaret Zheng
| Published: Feb 28, 2020
Breast augmentation involves the use of implants or fat tissue to increase patient breast size. As of 2019, breast augmentation is the most popular…
TechnologyAugmentation mammaplastySurgery, PlasticPlastic SurgeryReconstructive Surgery
United States v. Milan Vuitch (1971)
By: Victoria Higginbotham
| Published: Jan 13, 2020
In the 1971 court case United States v. Milan Vuitch, hereafter US v. Vuitch, the US Supreme Court ruled that a Washington, DC law was constitutional…
LawAbortionReproductive RightsContraceptionSexual rights
“Some of the Uses of Electricity in Gynecology,” (1901) by William Henry Walling
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jan 13, 2020
In 1901, physician William Henry Walling published the article, Some of the Uses of Electricity in Gynecology, in the January issue of the American…
LiteratureElectricity in medicineGynecologyElectrotherapeuticsElectrotherapy
The Development of Silicone Breast Implants for Use in Breast Augmentation Surgeries in the United States
By: Margaret Zheng
| Published: Jan 13, 2020
In the 1960s, two plastic surgeons from the United States, Thomas Dillon Cronin and Frank Judson Gerow, collaborated with the Dow Corning Corporation…
TechnologyBreast ImplantsBreast implants--Law and legislationBreast implants--ComplicationsProducts liability--Breast implants
“Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid” (1953), by James Watson and Francis Crick
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Jan 13, 2020
In May 1953, scientists James Watson and Francis Crick wrote the article “Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid,”…
LiteratureDNANucleic AcidsDeoxyriboseGenetics