How Activists Are Protecting Reproductive Rights Under Trump
Taking a page from the anti-abortion lobby, pro-choice groups are pushing proactive legislation at the state level.
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‘Without Planned Parenthood, I Would’ve Had No Option’
With a new nomination to the Supreme Court announced last night, partisans on both sides of the abortion divide are…
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Carolyn Kaster / Evan Vucci / AP It May Be Unhealthy to Drink Tears
The resurgent ritual of mocking people for crying is a suboptimal source of social validation.
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Chester Holme / Mosaic Virtual Reality Can Make the Pain of Surgery Easier to Bear
By distracting patients, VR could minimize the cost and risk of operations—and allow doctors to operate on patients outside the hospital.
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Carlos Giusti / AP Trump's Immigration Order Might Cost Thousands of Americans Access to a Doctor
Medical students from the seven banned nations may never get to practice in the U.S., where many would have worked in underserved areas.
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Chris Ryan / Getty Are Opioids Behind a Cluster of Unusual Amnesia Cases?
Officials found 14 incidents of amnesia in Massachusetts patients with a history of using the painkillers.
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When the Children of Sperm Donors Want Answers
A reader, Erin, raises a really interesting concern among the estimated 30,000-60,000 Americans born every year…
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Rodi Said / Reuters What Trump's Executive Order Means for the Syrian Health Crisis
With the collapse of the country’s health system, Syrians are already dying of treatable diseases. Now, none of them have a hope of making it to the U.S.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters The Toxic Health Effects of Deportation Threat
The fear of immigration raids can harm children’s brains and health, potentially for life.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP The Health Battle Behind America's Next Milk Trend
An ancient variety of milk might do wonders for digestion—or it could be a money grab.
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Debating the Ethics of Egg Donation
After we published a story from a reader who had ethical qualms about using a donated egg that…
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Adopting an Embryo
This reader’s story of building a family has a dramatic series of ups and downs: At first…
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Reuters The DNA Test as Horoscope
Inside the growing world of lifestyle genetics tests
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Meaning of 'Access' to Health Care
Why Republicans like HHS nominee Tom Price are emphasizing “universal access” over “universal coverage”
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‘I Often Think of My Angel Baby’
Sunday was the 44th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and the following day, as one of his first acts as…
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters GOP: Shop Around for Surgery
For people sick of high deductibles, Republicans offer high-deductible plans as replacements for Obamacare.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How Ultrasound Became Political
The technology has been used to create sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Republican Health Plan That Doesn't Repeal Obamacare
As the party struggles to agree on a replacement, a group of GOP senators unveil a bill that would give states the option to keep it.
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Pete Marovich / Getty Trump Strikes at Abortion With a Revived Foreign-Aid Rule
The president has reinstated a contentious policy that blocks funding to international family-planning organizations unless they agree not to promote abortion.
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters What Is the Right Way to Wash Your Hands?
Redefining “clean” in an era of the skin microbiome
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Raphael Schneider / Getty The Folly of 'Purity Politics'
A new book argues for the value of owning up to your imperfections.
