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Margaret Crane's patent illustration for "Diagnostic Test Device", the first home pregnancy test. Margaret M. Crane (Meg Crane) is an American inventor and graphic designer who created the first at home pregnancy test in 1967 while working at Organon Pharmaceuticals in West Orange, New Jersey. [1]
In her book, Expecting Better, published in 2013, Oster criticizes conventional pregnancy customs, taboos and mores. She discusses the data behind common pregnancy practices and argues that many of them are misleading. [21] As of March 2019, the book has sold over 100,000 copies. [22] A revised and updated version of the book was published in 2021.
The term cryptic pregnancy is used by medical professionals to describe a pregnancy that is not recognized by the woman who is pregnant until she is in labor or has given birth. [1] The term is also used online for a special form of false pregnancy (pseudocyesis), or delusion of pregnancy, in which a woman who has no medical verification of ...
A CPC in Lincoln, Nebraska (foreground) intentionally located across the street [1] from an abortion clinic (background). A crisis pregnancy center (CPC), sometimes called a pregnancy resource center (PRC) [2] or a pro-life pregnancy center, [3] [4] is a type of nonprofit organization established by anti-abortion groups primarily to persuade pregnant women not to have an abortion.
The president-elect's use of a state consumer fraud statute against the Des Moines Register for a poll that missed the mark is a stretch, experts say
A systematic review published in 1998 showed that home pregnancy test kits, when used by experienced technicians, are almost as accurate as professional laboratory testing (97.4%). When used by consumers, however, the accuracy fell to 75%: the review authors noted that many users misunderstood or failed to follow the instructions included in ...
Elizabeth Holmes was born on February 3, 1984, in Washington, D.C. [12] Her father, Christian Rasmus Holmes IV, was a vice president at Enron, an energy company that later went bankrupt after an accounting fraud scandal.
A 2021 article in the New Criminal Law Review evaluated numerous studies and determined the rate is likely between 3% and 6%. ... Those grants required recipients to test all categories of kits ...