WASHINGTON — President Biden’s health secretary, facing criticism from other Democrats that the administration is not doing enough to counter the Supreme Court’s decision overturning
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Gas Piped Into Homes Contains Benzene, Other Risky Chemicals, Study Finds
The natural gas delivered to homes contains low concentrations of several chemicals linked to cancer, a new study found. Researchers also found inconsistent levels of
When Abortion Pills Were Banned in Brazil, Women Turned to Drug Traffickers
Women’s reliance on the black market for access to medication abortions means they may not follow best medical practice. When C., a 24-year-old teacher in
The Many Uses of CRISPR: Scientists Tell All
Smartphones, superglue, electric cars, video chat. When does the wonder of a new technology wear off? When you get so used to its presence that
CRISPR, 10 Years On: Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life
Ten years ago this week, Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues published the results of a test-tube experiment on bacterial genes. When the study came out
Abortion Pills Take the Spotlight as States Impose Abortion Bans
Since October 2020, Just the Pill has provided more than 2,500 telemedicine consultations with doctors to supply abortion pills by mail to patients in Colorado,
Jeffrey Escoffier, Health Official and Scholar of Gay Theory, Dies at 79
And he wrote voluminously. Many of his essays, as he put it in the introduction to “American Homo: Community and Perversity,” his 1998 book, “explore
In Light of Roe v. Wade Ruling, Men Share Their Abortion Stories
Two years ago, Matthew Markman, a software salesman in California, and his wife, who was 20 weeks pregnant, learned that their son had a rare
What’s Next for Juul and E-Cigarettes?
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ordered Juul Labs to stop selling e-cigarettes in the United States, saying the company had provided conflicting and
Does Your Nose Help Pick Your Friends?
Human beings maintain the polite fiction that we’re not constantly smelling one another. Despite our efforts to the contrary, we all have our own odors,