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A Drug Factory the Size of a Refrigerator
A new machine could cut medication costs by allowing hospitals and pharmacies to make their own pills.
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Parenting and Punishment
Image Source / Corbis The Strong Evidence Against Spanking
A review of the available research finds that physical punishment is significantly linked to bad outcomes for kids.
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How to Overcome Your Fear of Giving Birth
My recent piece for The Atlantic on tokophobia received a lot of email from readers discussing their own personal fears…
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How to Turn Anxiety Into Excitement
It takes three words.
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Ina Fassbender / Reuters Internet Reading Club: June 2016
The best science, technology, and health stories from around the web.
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Henry Romero / Reuters The Moral Panic About Online Porn
The psychotherapist Marty Klein argues that most anxiety about its pervasive influence is misplaced.
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Tokophobia. So There’s a Name for It.
I always thought I was missing some important maternal chip in my system, some crucial feminine widget in my consciousness…
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Eric Gaillard / Reuters The Importance of Contraception to the Zika Fight
After bug spray, birth control is the best weapon available right now.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Contaminated Flour (Not Just Eggs) Makes Raw Dough a Nope
Federal officials also caution against letting kids sneak a taste of homemade dough projects.
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Laszlo Balogh / Reuters Optimists Make Better Lovers
People who predict happy endings with their partners have better relationships in the now.
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'I Didn’t Terminate My Pregnancy; I Lost My Baby'
A resurgence of traffic this week to our abortion series has attracted many more readers with personal stories of miscarriage…
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Jonathan Kim / Getty Why Do People Blush?
In the past, red cheeks have variously been linked to innocence, guilt, and repressed cannibalism.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters The Danger of a Third-Trimester Zika Infection
New research shows brain damage among Zika-infected babies, even when they are born with normal-sized heads.
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'I Prayed for a Miscarriage'
Here are two very different pro-life stories from readers. The first: My birth mother was 18 when…
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Kevin Frayer / Getty The World's Largest Mosquito Factory
Inside a laboratory at the forefront of the fight against Zika
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Alex Lee / Reuters Too Afraid to Have a Baby
Tokophobia—a pathological dread of giving birth—might be causing some women to avoid pregnancy.
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Larry Downing / Reuters Do Humans Inherit or Create Their Personalities?
A psychology professor sketches a debate that captivates many in his field.
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Baloncici / Shutterstock Can Edible Ice-Cream Containers Reinvent Food Packaging?
The environmental cost of boxes, cans, and jars has sparked a movement to change how food is stored.
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Driving to Abort a Down Syndrome Baby
This reader’s account is matter-of-fact and even jocular at one point: I aborted a baby at 14…
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'I Started Sobbing and Went Into Hysterics'
This is perhaps the most bleak and vivid account of an abortion we’ve received so far. The reader’s procedure resulted…
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Atlas of Clinical Medicine How Syphilis Came Roaring Back
The 18th-century ailment was on the brink of elimination before budget cuts helped resurrect it.
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When Getting Pregnant Threatens Your Gender Identity
This anonymous reader was determined to prevent pregnancy at all cost—not just to avoid the difficult choice of whether to…