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After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground'
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Sat,05/04/24-7:48AM , 77 Reads
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding — and disclosing the cause to a doctor.
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After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground'
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Sat,05/04/24-7:47AM , 70 Reads
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding — and disclosing the cause to a doctor.
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Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York on July 7, 2000. A study published Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in the journal Science Advances suggests that brown rats crawled off ships arriving in the Americas earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals – infuriating and disgusting generations of city-dwellers and becoming so ubiquitous in North American cities that they’re known as common rats, street rats or sewer rats. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea, File)

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How brown rats crawled off ships and conquered North American cities
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Wed,04/03/24-1:01PM , 140 Reads
Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race.
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Emily Hollenbeck, a deep brain stimulation therapy patient, demonstrates an EEG device that records brain activity as she reacts to short videos at Mount Sinai’s “Q-Lab” in New York on Dec. 20, 2023. Dr. Brian Kopell, who directs Mount Sinai's Center for Neuromodulation, says in normal brains electrical activity reverberates unimpeded in all areas, in a sort of dance. In depression, the dancers get stuck within the brain’s emotional circuitry. DBS seems to “unstick the circuit,” he says, allowing the brain to do what it normally would. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

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A pacemaker for the brain helped a woman with crippling depression. It may soon offer hope to others
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Tue,02/20/24-11:14PM , 97 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Hollenbeck lived with a recurring depression she likened to a black hole, where gravity felt so strong and her limbs so heavy she could barely move. She knew the illness could kill her. Both her parents had taken their lives.
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