Month: February 2024

You wouldn’t think it would be easy to get nearly 4.5 million Americans—the equivalent of the entire state of Louisiana or Kentucky—to give up smoking. But it can be done in a single, straightforward step: prohibiting the sale of menthol cigarettes. That’s the conclusion of a new study in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research. … Read more

The clinics are routinely sued by patients for errors that destroy embryos, as happened in Alabama. An effort to define them legally as “unborn children” has raised the stakes. View original article Contributor: Azeen Ghorayshi and Sarah Kliff

Doctors in six states where abortion is legal are using new laws to send abortion pills to tens of thousands of women in states where it is illegal. View original article Contributor: Pam Belluck

A ruling by the state’s Supreme Court could change common practices at fertility clinics in the state and possibly nationwide. View original article Contributor: Jan Hoffman

N.I.H. researchers found notable differences between the immune systems and other physiological functions of patients with ME/CFS and those of healthy patients. View original article Contributor: Pam Belluck

Play is a microcosm of childhood, a protective shell like a butterfly’s chrysalis that safeguards children from the slings and arrows of life, one that allows them to grow. What happens, however, when, through no fault of your own, you are born into conditions—poverty, racism, and other adversities—that groom children for bad outcomes? Can play, … Read more