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Infertility Specialist: Embryo Testing Improving IVF Outcomes

By: Mallory Locklear | September 19, 2016

Dr. David Keefe, a specialist in infertility at New York University’s School of Medicine, talks about what is known, what remains unexplained and how genome sequencing is helping to reduce miscarriages.

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Scientist Who Mapped U.S. Zika Risk Now Working on Awareness App

By: Mallory Locklear | July 25, 2016

“Most of us in the U.S. are lucky to be in the periphery,” says Kacey Ernst, an epidemiologist. “But of course with sexual transmission it doesn’t matter where you live.”

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‘Periods for Pence’ Follows Trump VP into National Spotlight

By: Hoa Nguyen | July 18, 2016

The group that has been spontaneously trolling the Indiana governor for his anti-abortion extremism since March just spawned a copycat Twitter account, Tampons for Trump.

Teen Voices

Hysteria Diagnosis Still Hounds Some Girls with Invisible Disabilities

By: Bryn Healy | July 7, 2016

“My entire sixth grade experience was people not believing that I was sick,” says one girl. “People thought I used a wheelchair for fun.” Part of Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, highlighting stories by and about girls with disabilities.

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Texas Abortion Clinic Ruling Stirs Huge Online Applause

By: Hoa Nguyen | June 27, 2016

Among those celebrating was a young woman who, in a court briefing, described her own abortion. “I knew what was best for my family,” she said, her voice shaking, shortly after the ruling came out June 27.

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To Curb Maternal Death, U.S. Hospitals Urged to Weigh Bleeding Pads

By: Marsha Walton | June 20, 2016

Getting hospitals to stop estimating blood loss and start quantifying it—going from “EBL to QBL”–is now a major goal of an effort to reduce postpartum hemorrhage, a leading cause of maternal death that disproportionately afflicts black women.

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Health System Skimps on Trans Health Care Training

By: Mallory Locklear | June 15, 2016

A scarcity of physicians with special training in the needs of one trans man left him giving his doctor guidance on his own testosterone dosage. “There’s a huge online community,” he says, “and luckily I knew from YouTube and Facebook what was typical.”

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Forced Into Marriage, Syrian Teen Engulfed by Abuse and Trauma

By: Fahrinisa Fatima Oswald | June 14, 2016

As her family was fleeing Syria, one mother thought an arranged marriage for her 11-year-old daughter was a chance at safety. Instead, it opened the door to devastation, according to a doctor who met them at her clinic and tells what she observed.

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Mass Killing in Florida Gay Nightclub Stirs Outpour of Grief and Horror

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | June 12, 2016

In the middle of LGBT Pride Month, the killing of 50 people and injury of many others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is sending shock and outrage through the country and the world.

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Reproductive Health Urged to be at Heart of Humanitarian Crisis Response

By: Juhie Bhatia (Managing Editor) | June 3, 2016

Politicians and activists at the recent World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul highlighted the dire consequences of overlooking reproductive and sexual health care in crises. A series of new commitments and projects were announced to address this growing need.

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