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When Human Life Begins Is a Question of Politics – Not Biology

Sahotra Sarkar 08/09/2021

Fundamentally, science can observe the various phases of foetal...

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Why Is It So Hard to End Elephantiasis?

Alexander Kwarteng, Jonathan Roberts, Kristi Heather Kenyon and Mary Asirifi 07/09/2021

Lymphatic filariasis, also called elephantiasis tropica, is one of...

Each COVID surge poses a risk for health care workers: PTSD

Each COVID-19 Surge Poses a Risk for Healthcare Workers – PTSD

Lisa Baertlein 07/09/2021

About 5,000 US physicians quit every two years due...

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Nine Months Later, 25 Takeaways From the World’s COVID-19 Vaccination Programme

Dr Vipin Vashishtha 06/09/2021

More than 5.41 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been...

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How American Environmentalism Failed

William Shutkin 05/09/2021

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision,...

FILE PHOTO: File photo of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flies over the Mojave Desert shortly before successfully completing a test flight that broke the sound barrier

US Aviation Regulator Grounds Branson’s Virgin Galactic

The July 11 test flight with Richard Branson and...

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In Europe, Red Tape Keeps COVID Vaccines Away From 4M Undocumented Migrants

Sarah Haque and Laura Margottini 04/09/2021

While many national inoculation plans often say that migrants...