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Brain implants allow us to move and talk. But they could also be hacked
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (687+ words) The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel. Yet it's still vulnerable to debilitating conditions such as paralysis, stroke, epilepsy and various neurodegenerative diseases. Scientists are investigating if a kind…...
Sex Without Birth Control Is Better, But Not For The Reason You Think
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (823+ words) I'm thinking of becoming Catholic," is not the sentence I expected to come out of my husband's mouth, especially when I was only a few weeks postpartum with our second child. Four years after that day, we're both Catholic, and…...
Letters: Title X funds being misused to promote anti-contraception agenda
5+ hour, 1+ min ago (182+ words) NOLA. com Birth control pills, as seen in October 2017. (Richard B. Levine/Sipa USA/TNS) ORG XMIT: 1525793 Title X funding is used to support comprehensive, affordable family planning and related preventive health services " especially for people with low incomes or without…...
Koshi women struggle to access safe abortion
10+ hour, 14+ min ago (527+ words) By Shashidhar Parajuli, Biratnagar, May 18: Constitution guarantees safe motherhood and reproductive health as a fundamental right for women. However, the lack of legal clarity and social awareness continues to make access to safe abortion services challenging in Koshi Province." Stakeholders…...
Letters: Funds promote anti-contraception agenda | Opinion | theadvocate. com
5+ hour, 1+ min ago (246+ words) Title X funding is used to support comprehensive, affordable family planning and related preventive health services " especially for people with low incomes or without insurance. Lately, however, Health and Human Services has begun steering funding away from contraceptive services to…...
HEALTH FOCUS: Concerns grow over missing contraceptives
15+ hour, 36+ min ago (146+ words) Uganda continues to invest billions of shillings in family planning commodities every year'contraceptives that are meant to be provided free of charge in public health facilities. But concerns are growing over leakages of these public supplies into private-sector channels, a…...
Top Newcastle surgeon on using brain implants to help restore patients' mobility
11+ hour, 38+ min ago (724+ words) Mr Mohammed Akbar Hussain and Dr Luke Bashford at the RVI(Image: NHS) "There are not many places like this in the world." The recently-launched and Newcastle-based National Centre for Neurotechnology and Neurorestoration will put the city at the heart…...
By changing women's lives, "the pill' changed the nation
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (11+ words) Press Reader...
By changing women's lives, the pill changed the nation
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AMERICA AT 250 | By changing women's lives, the pill changed the nation
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (409+ words) The pill helped give birth to modern America. Known by one simple word, the revolutionary oral contraceptive -- approved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration 66 years ago -- didn't just prevent innumerable pregnancies. It gave women new freedom, changing family life and…...