2020–2029
127 entries with publication dates in this decade.
2020
#13484
COVID-19 vaccine development and a potential nanomaterial path forward.
Published 15 July 2020. Order of authorship in original publication: Shin, Shukla, Chung....Steinmetz. Probably the first publication on the type of nanotechnology involved in production of the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA…
2020
#13485
Novel 2019 coronavirus genome.
https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319 "Novel 2019 coronavirus genome "10th January 2020 "This posting is communicated by Edward C. Holmes, University of Sydney on behalf of the consortium led by …
2020
#13497
Galen: A thinking doctor in Imperial Rome
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
A very readable and relatively brief, but comprehensive, biography. The appendix provides a complete list of Galen's works with their titles in Latin, also in English translation, correlated to the best editions and t…
2020
#13506
Safety and efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.
BNT162b2 is synonomous with the Pfizer BioNTech mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. The Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine was produced from theoretical design to finished product and distribution in less than one year. This was the fir…
2020
#13512
The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.
"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…
2020
#13517
Hearing happiness: Deafness cures in history.
2020
#13518
The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.
2020
#13519
Correspondence. Transmission of 2019 nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany.
Posted online 1-30-20, updated 2-6-20, and published in print on March 5, 2020. First report of the "asymptomatic transmission" of Covid-19. The authors wrote, “The fact that asymptomatic persons are potential sources…
2020
#13520
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…
2020
#13523
REGN-COV2 antibodies prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in rhesus macaques and hamsters.
The authors, working at Regeneron, showed that a cocktail of two potent neutralizing monoclonal antibodes reduced virus load in the airways and diminshed viral induced pathological sequelae when given both as a prophy…
2020
#13537
Abortion in America and the law in America: Roe v. Wade to the present.
2020
#13658
The history of glaucoma.
2020
#13668
In the shadow of Vesalius: An exciting series of new insights into life and work of Andreas Vesalius and his friends. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.
2020
#13670
Global health and the new world order: Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, Laurent Pordié and David Cantor.
2020
#13703
Dark archives: A librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin.
2020
#13725
To make the wounded whole: The African American struggle against HIV/AIDS.
2020
#13774
The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.
2020
#13776
The human gene editing debate.
"Provides a history of the debate about gene editing, a summary of the ethics, and a proposal for moving forward. Re-conceptualizes the historical discussion about gene editing in the context of today's widespread use…
2020
#14031
The beginnings of modern medicine in Iran.
2020
#14043
Patents on life: Religious, moral, and social justice aspects of biotechnology and intellectual property. Edited by Thomas C. Berg, Roman Cholij, and Simon Ravenscroft.
2020
#14098
The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals.
Expanding on previous findings by a genome wide association study of severe COVID-19, specifically with respiratory failure which had found that a gene cluster residing on chromosome 3 had a significant association wi…
2020
#14154
Fevers, feuds, and diamonds: Ebola and the ravages of history.
"Farmer first visited the Western African Ebola virus epidemic site in July 2014, and much of the book is devoted to his personal experiences. Reviewing the outbreak in 2020, he noted that there were almost no Ebola d…
2020
#14185
Single particle cryo-EM at atomic resolution.
The authors located individual atoms with a protein molecule for the first time using cryo-EM. This was the highest resolution imaging of a single protein molecule achieved to date using cryo-EM. Order of authorship o…
2021
#13087
Greek Medical Manuscripts - Diels' Catalogue. Edited by Alain Touwaide. 5 vols.
Vol. 1: Diels' catalogue with indices. Vol. 2: Corpus Hippocraticum Vol. 3: Corpus Galenicum Vol. 4: Ceteri Medici Vol. 5. The manuscripts and their texts. "The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studi…
2021
#13234
Neutron tomography of Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Cocquyt, Zhou, Plomp, van Eijck. I Abstract "The technique of neutron tomography has, after 350 years, enabled a first look inside the iconic single-lens microscopes of…
2021
#13271
Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.
2021
#13273
American men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering with roots in Czechoslovakia.
2021
#13373
Up against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.
Documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or a cure. Selected from the 8000 post…
2021
#13401
Preventable: The inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the U.S. coronavirus response.
2021
#13477
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…
2021
#13478
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing for sickle cell disease and ß-thalassemia.
First application of CRISPR gene editing in the successful cure of diseases. Order of authorship in the original publication: Frangoul, Altshuler, Cappellini. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpret…
2021
#13486
The history of pediatric and adult hearing screening.
2021
#13507
Efficacy and safety of the mRNA-1273 SARSCov-2 vaccine.
mRNA-1273 is synonymous with the Moderna mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. The Moderna mRNA vaccine was produced from theoretical design to finished product and distribution in less than one year. This was the first published pa…
2021
#13524
REGN-COV-2, a neutralizing antibody cocktail, in outpatients with Covid-19.
The authors showed that the Regeneron antibody cocktail has a low incidence of side effects and a profound and rapid effect on viral load, with most reduction occurring within 48 hours, even in patents with the highes…
2021
#13578
Health and medicine by Michael B. Dougan.
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/health-and-medicine-392/ An overview of the history of health and medicine in Arkansas with many cross-references to related articles in the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
2021
#13667
Vesaliana: An updated and annotated Vesalius Bibliography, including all known publications on Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) and his works. Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.
http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ A bibliography of studies about Vesalius and his works. When I added this entry in October 2021 the latest version was a 582-page PDF dated January 2021.
2021
#13669
Inventory of the editions of Andreas Vesalius's works and letters (Opera litteraeque Andreae Vesalii). Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.
http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ An update of Harvey Cushing's Biobibliography. When I added this entry in October 2021 the most recent online version of this bibliography was a 506-page PDF dated January 2021.
2021
#13677
C'rona pandemic comics.
https://worldofviruses.unl.edu/crona-comix/
2021
#13679
An organ of murder: Crime, violence and phrenology in nineteenth-century America.
2021
#13724
Bibliotheca Opticoria 1475-1925: A library on the history of our understanding of light and vision.
2021
#13726
A history of medical libraries and medical librarianship: From John Shaw Billings to the digital era.
Concerns only U.S. medical libraries.
2021
#13773
Literature and medicine. Vol. 1. The eighteenth century. Vol. 2. The nineteenth century. Edited by Clark Lawlor and Andrew Mangham.
2021
#13785
Ordering the myriad things: From traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China.
"China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by ke…
2021
#13794
A frog under the tongue: Jewish folk medicine in Eastern Europe.
2021
#13916
"All manner of ingenuity and industry." A bio-bibliography of Dr. Thomas Willis 1621-1675 by Alastair Compston.
2021
#14023
An oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitor clinical candidate for the treatment of COVID-19.
The authors showed how a coronavirus specific protease inhibitor designed in the lab, that could be administered by mouth to humans, achieved excellent plasma concentrations and antiviral potency. This drug, marketed …
2021
#14026
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.
Abstract: "Proteins are essential to life, and understanding their structure can facilitate a mechanistic understanding of their function. Through an enormous experimental effort1,2,3,4, the structures of around 100,0…
2021
#14030
History of hospitals in Iran, 550-1950.
2021
#14058
Medicine and healing in the age of slavery. Edited by Sean Morey Smith & Christopher D. E. Willoughby.
2021
#14104
Morbid undercurrents: Medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France.
"During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking—subcu…