Selected clips
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On TikTok, influencers promise you can beat burnout by planning your life around your menstrual cycle.
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The Girlbosses of Fertility, The Cut
Fertility coaches sell hope to women struggling to conceive. But can they actually deliver?
Who’s Afraid of Birth Control? The Cut
A new documentary questions the safety of hormonal contraception. Its argument doesn’t hold up.
People receiving medical treatment shouldn’t have to drum up new business for their doctors—it's time to hold the industry to a higher standard.
Advocates for dubious therapies (fight Covid with your own fat!) have latched on to conservative grievances—and formed an unholy alliance.
Dubious Alternative Lyme Treatments Are Killing Patients, Businessweek
Forget about the ticks. A pattern of harm follows “Lyme-literate medical doctors.”
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Fighting the Shame of Skin Picking, The New York Times
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German Start-ups Learn to Fail, New York Magazine
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The Fight to Secure Vulnerable Medical Devices From Hackers,
New York Magazine
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The Atlantic
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Code Now. Pay Tuition Later. The Atlantic
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Can Tagged Birds Predict Coming Earthquakes? National Geographic
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Longreads
Ida Tin's Battle to Build Clue, a Period-Tracking App, The New Yorker
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