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Sunday 27 September 2020
The analysis shows that people are in a better mood around the holidays.
Under Jessica Farrar’s proposal, men would be fined for masturbating.
A baby mouse has been produced with a type of cell that’s not an egg.
Men as well as women need to be educated about reproductive responsibility. We need a nationwide education campaign on fertility awareness, writes Dr John Waterstone.
He does not agree with certain aspects of new family law.
UK politicians have approved an IVF method that uses DNA from three donors.
16 other women remain in jail, accused of having abortions.
Strict new Covid-19 measures have been announced for the two counties – here’s what you need to know.
It is a fact of life that parents will enter into arrangements of whereby a third party bears their child – so we need legislation that deals directly with surrogacy.
The procedure was somewhat controversial because the womb was taken from a live donor.
It’s not as funny as it sounds.
The fall in donations could make procedures more invasive for women, it has been warned.
Proposals in new legislation to enforce penalties for this would likely be unenforceable anyway, they said.
Girls in the USA were found to be developing symptoms of puberty at an average age of 9.7 years.
Your teen needs to be informed about sexual health and the importance of keeping themselves safe, writes Martina Newe.
The University of Nottingham says Keith Campbell – who rose to worldwide fame in 1997 – passed away last week.
Uterine transplants are a relatively novel medical procedure, with the first successful one conducted in Turkey in 2011.
There are few certainties when it comes to abortion, which is why we need to start treating women like adults, writes Hazel Katherine Larkin.
Researchers say that increasing contraceptive use in developing countries has cut the number of maternal deaths by 40 per cent over the past 20 years.
Over millions of years, the Y chromosome – which makes men… men – had begun to shrink, and risk total extinction.
ANY SIGNIFICANT LEVEL of flu in the community could lead to the Covid-19 test and trace system being overwhelmed as people present with similar symptoms, health experts say.
Chief Clinical Officer Dr Colm Henry told TheJournal.ie that because flu and Covid-19 both seriously impact on vulnerable and older groups, health officials want to “avoid a twin attack on the same populations” in Ireland.
He said the focus will also be on keeping down the level of flu among those who will not be seriously ill with it, but who may pass it on to those vulnerable groups.
This is why the flu vaccine without charge has been extended to a number of other groups this year, including to children aged two to 12. Previously this applied only to those over the age of 70.
So, today we want to know: Do you plan to get the flu vaccine this upcoming winter?
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