pregnancy testing Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/pregnancy-testing/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:43:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 How a pregnancy test saved the lives of a family in Nazi times https://bshm.org.uk/how-a-pregnancy-test-saved-the-lives-of-a-family-in-nazi-times/ https://bshm.org.uk/how-a-pregnancy-test-saved-the-lives-of-a-family-in-nazi-times/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:43:23 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=17512 Susanne Krejsa MacManus explains how pregnancy testing saved the life of a refugee woman biochemist and her family in the run-up to World War II. In the 1930s, the Institute of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh University was the only UK laboratory that ran pregnancy tests. Although the Aschheim-Zondek method invented in Berlin in the late […]

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