1995 VENTER, John Craig (1946 – ); SMITH, Hamilton Othanel (1931 – ); FLEISCHMANN, Robert D.; ADAMS, Mark D.; WHITE, Owen; ET AL
Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd.
First sequence of the complete genome of a free-living non-viral organism—Haemophilus influenzae—the bacterium that causes lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis in infants and young children. This genome c…
GMN 11343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13541
1995 NEILL, Catherine Annie (1921 – 2006); CLARK, Edward B.
The developing heart: A "history" of pediatric cardiology.
A memoir, largely from personal experience, of the developments in embryology, pathology, clinical features, treatment of congenital heart disease.
GMN 12364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14588
1996 BAKER, Jeffrey P.
The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.
GMN 8602 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10779
1997 OLDFIELD, Philip; DRAKE, Theodore George Harwood (1891 – 1959)
Tending the young from the T.G.H. Drake collection on the history of pediatrics.
GMN 8734 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10912
1998 SWEDO, Susan E.; LEONARD, Henrietta L. (1954 – 2007); GARVEY, Marjory; ET AL
Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Swedo, Leonard, Garvey.... Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), "an hypothesis that there exists a subset …
GMN 11079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13275
1999 COLÓN, A. R.; COLÓN, P. A.
Nurturing children: A history of pediatrics
GMN 8625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10802
2000 RADBILL, Samuel X. (1901 – 1987); GUELLE, Laura Ann
Catalogue of the Samuel X. Radbill pediatric historical library of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
GMN 8664 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10841
2001 WOLF, Jacqueline H.
Don't kill your baby: Public health and the decline of breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
GMN 10623 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12816
2005 ALLANDER, Tobias; TAMMI, Martti T.; ERIKSSON, Margareta; ET AL
Cloning of a human parvovirus by molecular screening of respiratory tract samples.
Discovery of the first Human Bocavirus (HBoV1), a new virus species associated with lower respiratory infection almost always in children. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Allander, Tammi, Eriksson). …
GMN 12720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14966
2011 ROWLEY, Anne H.; BAKER, Susan C.; SHULMAN, Stanford T.; ET AL
Ultrastructural, immunofluorescence, and RNA evidence support the hypothesis of a "new" virus associated with Kawasaki disease.
The authors concluded that a very common infectious agent, one that usually results in an asymptomatic infection, causes Kawasaki disease in a subset of genetically predisposed children. They argued that the available…
GMN 12719 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14965
2011 MINTZ-HITTNER, Helen A.; KENNEDY, Kathleen A.; CHUANG, Alice Z.
Efficacy of intravitreal Bevacizumab for state 3+ retinopathy of prematurity.
The authors, representatives of the "BEAT-ROP Cooperative Group," showed that intravitreal bevacizumab monoclonal antibody therapy in infants with stage 3+ retinopathy of prematurity showed a significant benefit for z…
GMN 14152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16467
2012 NEWTON, Hannah
The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.
The first book on children's health and illness in early modern England.
GMN 8105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10281
2013 BOEHM, Katharina
Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .
GMN 10712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12906
2013 WILSON, Adrian
Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.
"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…
GMN 12023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14231
2015 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); MCVAUGH, Michael Rogers (1938 – ); BOS, Gerrit
Al-Rāzī, On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum). The Latin and Hebrew Translations, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.
One of the few texts on pediatrics that circulated during the Middle Ages, this short Latin tretise is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed--perhaps mistakenly--to Rhazes.
GMN 8260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10436
2016 OTOVO, Okezi T.
Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.
GMN 10662 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12855
2018 STEWART, Christopher James; AJAMI, Nadim J.; O'BRIEN, Jacqueline L.; ET AL
Temporal development of the gut microbiome in early childhood from the TEDDY study.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Stewart, Ajami, O'Brien....This study confirmed that "breastfeeding was associated with higher levels of Bididofacterium species" (a very desirable organism), and that …
GMN 11461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13660
2020 JONES, Veena Goel; MILLS, Marcos; SUAREZ, Dominique Marie; ET AL
Covid-19 and Kawasaki disease: Novel virus and novel case.
Published online 4-7-20; in print in June, 2020. First case report of what became known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), sometimes present with Kawasaki disease. This is one of the worst compl…
GMN 13520 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15795
2021 WHO IMMEDIATE KMC STUDY GROUP
Immediate "kangaroo mother care" and survival of infants with low birth weight.
This study demonstrated that "vulnerable infants have a better chance of survival if they start receiving 'kangaroo mother care'--which calls for babies to spend as much time as possible in direct contact with a caref…
GMN 13477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15751
