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When can a woman get pregnant? Austrian–Japanese consensus
This very month, October 2019, marks the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Austro-Japanese friendship, trade and shipping treaty of 1869.
However, this list is forgetting one important area: medicine.
Ferdinand Peeters (1918-1998)
It is him that we have to thank for the first ever pill in Germany, Anovlar: he investigated, assessed and developed the dosage of a Schering research preparation.
Dirk Wildemeersch MD has died
The tireless developer and genius inventor of contraceptive coils, Dirk Wildemeersch MD, has died. Over years of meticulous work, he developed the Gynefix® coil in 1984: the nylon thread with small copper beads is fixed in the wall of the uterus, and thus the risk of it being expelled without one noticing is very low.
Member of the Austrian Museum Association
Seal of Approval of the Austrian Museum Association
Supported by European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health
Nominated for the EMYA Museum of the Year Award 2010. First Winner of the Kenneth Hudson Award given by the Trustees of the European Museum Forum
Accepted into the 'Excellence Club - The Best in Heritage'