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Abortion, contraception, pregnancy: how women’s bodies became a battlezone
The challenges people face accessing abortion and contraception in two very different countries – India and the USA.
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Skin lightening: the dangerous obsession that’s worth billions
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The uncertain future of genetic testing
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We need to change the way we think about genetic variation
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Most care leavers say they survived the system… I survived because of the system
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“I just want to know how my sons died” – bringing home Bosnia’s dead
Thousands of families are still waiting for news of missing loved ones, 25 years after the bloody Balkans war. Ed Vulliamy meets the scientists piecing together the evidence from mass graves, and the relatives hoping for justice – and a body to bury
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Intersex: seeking the beauty in difference
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My life with hypospadias
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The man who gave himself away
How discovering an equation for altruism cost George Price everything.
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Messing with our heads
Like many balding men, Rhodri Marsden has learned to accept losing his hair. But male stoicism and other coping strategies – from hats and wigs to dark humour – often mask deep distress, and even suicidal feelings. Will modern medicine ever find a ‘cure’ – or does the solution lie elsewhere?
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Raising my HIV family