birth control
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A Birth Control Pill for Men Could Start Human Trials This Year
Scientists are still racing to create the first male contraceptive that isn’t a condom or surgery. In new preliminary research, a team says they’ve developed a non-hormonal form of male birth control, one that kept lab mice sterile for four to six weeks with seemingly no side effects. Early human trials of the pill are…
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Apps Are Birth Control Now
Exhausted and disoriented, I arrive tempest-tossed on the shores of our dystopia to tell you the good news: Apps are birth control now.
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India’s Monkeys Keep Killing People, So Scientists Are Trying Radical New Sterilisation Strategies
One evening last November, a young woman named Neha was feeding her infant son inside their house in Runkata, a small town in the outskirts of Agra, India. Suddenly, a monkey broke into the house, snatched the baby boy from her arms, and made away with him. Neighbours chased the unexpected kidnapper with stones, but…
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UK Bans Birth Control App Ad Over ‘Misleading’ Claims About Its Accuracy
Natural Cycles, an app that uses an algorithm to predict fertility, has a thorny past when it comes to unwanted pregnancies. And the UK’s advertising watchdog just upheld a ruling that the digital birth control’s Facebook ad from last year is misleading.