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The Indiana Senate gave final approval to a gender definition bill Tuesday along party lines. Senate Bill 182 defines female, ...

A biochemist by training, Bakshi could become the first biotech company chief executive officer to bring a hormone-free male birth control pill to market. The pill his team developed, YCT-529, works ...

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How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I’ve used an intrauterine device (IUDs) as birth control since becoming ...

In this retrospective cohort study, investigators assessed whether having stress-related psychiatric conditions influenced how the use of combined hormonal birth control affects the risk for major ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Labor pain is the result of a complex interaction of several physiological, psychosocial, cultural, and environmental factors, making its management difficult and challenging ...