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Rape trauma as barrier to pregnancy has no scientific basis

August 23, 2021 at 12:40 p.m.

(Reuters) - The long-discredited notion that rape victims cannot become pregnant - a claim that pushed Republicans to repudiate one of their own U.S. Senate candidates on Monday - dates...

Rape trauma as barrier to pregnancy has no scientific basis

December 24, 2018 at 1:06 p.m.

(Reuters) - The long-discredited notion that rape victims cannot become pregnant - a claim that pushed Republicans to repudiate one of their own U.S. Senate candidates on Monday - dates...

Human study re-ignites debate over controversial diabetes ‘cure’

May 13, 2019 at 7:53 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A controversial experimental cure for type 1 diabetes, using a tuberculosis vaccine invented a century ago, appears to temporarily vanquish the disease, according to a study...

Accused Colorado killer no easy fit for mass murderer profile

December 24, 2018 at 10:24 a.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unless James Holmes chooses to say why he went on the lethal shooting spree he is accused of in a Colorado movie theater last Friday, the...

Mind games of the victorious

August 23, 2021 at 10:59 a.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For decades after the first sports psychology lab was established in 1920 in Germany, mental coaches have been the water boys of sports science, viewed by...

Mind games of the victorious

December 24, 2018 at 10:04 a.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For decades after the first sports psychology lab was established in 1920 in Germany, mental coaches have been the water boys of sports science, viewed by...

Nothing but net? Basketball science has more answers

August 23, 2021 at 11:01 a.m.

(This is the seventh in a series of stories about the science behind the Olympics to run daily this week.) NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a multibillion-dollar sport like basketball,...

Nothing but net? Basketball science has more answers

December 24, 2018 at 10:07 a.m.

(This is the seventh in a series of stories about the science behind the Olympics to run daily this week.) NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a multibillion-dollar sport like basketball,...

From a vial of mom’s blood, a fetus’s entire genome

August 23, 2021 at 10:16 a.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The days of pregnant women having a 3-inch-long (8-centimetre-long) hollow needle jabbed into their abdomens may be numbered. For the second time in a month, scientists...

From a vial of mom’s blood, a fetus’s entire genome

December 24, 2018 at 8:47 a.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The days of pregnant women having a 3-inch-long (8-centimetre-long) hollow needle jabbed into their abdomens may be numbered. For the second time in a month, scientists...

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