Addressing healthcare needs of women and mothers to ensure a healthy future

Addressing healthcare needs of women and mothers to ensure a healthy future   post-info The first National Women’s Day was observed in the United States on February 28th 1909 in honour of the garment worker’s

Can US Cities, States Reduce Carbon Emissions without Feds? Coping with Trump and Climate Change

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News about ancient humanity: Humans in California 130,000 years ago? Homo naledi find is much younger than expected

0000-0002-8715-2896 News about ancient humanity: Humans in California 130,000 years ago? Homo naledi find is much younger than expected   Posted May 5, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above

Let’s talk about sex: Why the Zika outbreak is really about reproductive rights for Latin American women

file0001913270767-690x320Sarah Borg is a junior medical doctor trained in Adelaide, Australia with a Master of Public Health from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is currently working as an intern in the

Nobel-worthy gravitational waves; Supreme Court legalities for climate change, abortion

GRAVITATIONAL WAVES MAKE WAVES Here it is only February, but the long-sought detection of gravitational waves announced last week is likely to be the biggest science news of 2016. The ability to see/hear gravitational waves

Is the government telling women not to drink? How many microbes in the human body?

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Is Lander’s revisionist CRISPR history sexist?

Explosive disagreements over the origins of CRISPR, the leading methodology for editing genes, were inevitable. CRISPR has given scientists (and journalists) dizzying dreams of a near-unlimited ability to manipulate the genomes of animals and plants,

Research Reading Roundup: Advice for postdocs, a simple tool for live-tweeting and more

As we break in 2016, here is a new batch of articles on recent happenings in science, academia and publishing. Karen Kelsky (aka The Doctor Is In) offers advice for postdocs on composing a successful

More on gene editing rules, CRISPR in humans and dogs, bioethics & breakthroughs

THE HUMAN GENE EDITING SUMMIT, CONT’D Citizens seeking to understand what was decided at last week’s Human Gene Editing Summit might be understandably confused by the contradictions in these headlines: Scientific community approves human gene

White deaths increase: drugs, alcohol, suicide, but in US only. Why?

cemetary1-512x320 (1)There’s a big puzzle growing out of that startling new research showing that the death rate among white Americans age 45-54, especially the less-educated, has been rising since 1999. This even though the death rate