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“Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography” (2013), by Peter Gøtzsche and Karsten Jørgensen
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Aug 08, 2017
Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography is a Cochrane systematic review originally published by Peter Gøtzsche and Karsten Jørgensen in 2001 and…
LiteratureMammographyBreastcarcinomaCancer
"Risks and Benefits of Estrogen Plus Progestin in Healthy, Postmenopausal Women: Principal Results from the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial" (2002), by Jacques Rossouw et al.
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Aug 08, 2017
In 2002, the Writing Group for the Women's Health Initiative Investigators published the article Risks and Benefits of Estrogen Plus Progestin in…
LiteratureMenopauseosteoporosispostmenopauseEstrogen Replacement Therapy
“Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Associated with a Trial of Labor after Prior Cesarean Delivery” (2004), Mark B. Landon et al.
By: Claire Elise Grayson
| Published: Aug 08, 2017
In 2004 Mark Landon and his colleagues in the United States published “Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Associated with a Trial of Labor after Prior…
LiteratureVaginal Birth after CesareanCesarean SectionUterine RuptureTrial of Labor
HIP Randomized Breast Cancer Screening Trial (1963–1982)
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Aug 08, 2017
From 1963 to 1982, researchers in New York City, New York, carried out a randomized trial of mammography screening. Mammography is the use of X-ray…
ExperimentsHIPMammographyBreastcarcinoma
“Infant Survival After Cesarean Section for Trauma” (1996), by John A. Morris, Jr. et al.
By: Claire Elise Grayson
| Published: Aug 08, 2017
In the May 1996 edition of The Annals of Surgery, John A. Morris and his collaborators published “Infant Survival After Cesarean Section for Trauma…
LiteratureCesarean SectionAbdominal DeliveryDelivery (Obstetrics)Obstetrics--Surgery
The Jane Collective (1969–1973)
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Aug 07, 2017
The Jane Collective was an underground organization that provided illegal abortion services in Chicago, Illinois, from 1969 until abortions became…
OrganizationsAbortionReproductive RightsSexual rightsInduced Abortion
The Development of Mifepristone for Use in Medication Abortions
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Aug 07, 2017
In the 1980s, researchers at the pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf in Paris, France, helped develop a biological compound called mifepristone.…
Induced AbortionAbortionAbortifacientsReproductive RightsMifepristone
Elizabeth Dexter Hay (1927–2007)
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: Jul 26, 2017
Elizabeth Dexter Hay studied the cellular processes that affect development of embryos in the US during the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first…
Electron microscopesExtracellular matrixCorneaCollagenRadioactive substances
"The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever” (1843), by Oliver Wendell Holmes
By: Safiya Shaikh
| Published: Jul 26, 2017
In 1843, physician Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote and published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, an essay about puerperal fever, a disease that…
LiteratureSepsisSepticemiaPuerperal septicemiaInfection, Puerperal
"National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement September 22–24, 1980” (1980), by the National Institutes of Health
By: Sarah Foster
| Published: Jul 25, 2017
In 1980 the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) released a report…
LiteratureCesarean SectionCesarean section--ComplicationsObstetricsFetus