For decades, Uganda’s campaign against H.I.V. was exemplary, slashing the country’s death rate by nearly 90 percent from 1990 to 2019. Now a sweeping law enacted last year, the Anti-Homosexuality Act, threatens to renew the epidemic as L.G.B.T.Q. citizens are denied, or are too afraid to seek out, necessary medical care. The law criminalizes consensual… Continue reading With Harsh Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Law, Uganda Risks a Health Crisis
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An Evolutionary Debate on the Risks of Childbirth
It’s a question on every new parent’s exhausted mind: Why are babies born so helpless? In 1960, an American anthropologist laid out an influential explanation rooted in human evolution. As our early ancestors began walking upright, Sherwood Washburn argued in 1960, they evolved a narrower pelvis to make walking long distances more efficient. At the… Continue reading An Evolutionary Debate on the Risks of Childbirth
‘A Dangerous Combination’: Teenagers’ Accidents Expose E-Bike Risks
On a Thursday evening in late June, Clarissa Champlain learned that her 15-year-old son Brodee had been in a terrible crash, the latest teen victim of an e-bike accident. He had been riding from home to shot-putting practice. The e-bike, a model made by Rad Power, had a top speed of 20 miles per hour,… Continue reading ‘A Dangerous Combination’: Teenagers’ Accidents Expose E-Bike Risks