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Your choice of chocolate and contraceptive affect your gut bugs

The largest ever study of microbiomes reveals 69 factors that affect the bacteria that live in your gut, including diet and everyday medicines

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Sperm-binding beads could work as fertility aid or contraceptive

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Records reveal gender-selective abortion taking place in Canada

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Some stillbirths are avoidable if we know enough to act in time

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Embryo cells decide their future only two days after conception

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Microcephaly brain scans

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Zika virus disease renamed to reflect range of impacts on fetus

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Urine from premature babies could repair damaged kidneys

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Push for natural birth a dangerous flaw in UK maternity review

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Multiple births, not heart disease, is biggest IVF health risk

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Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

As more babies born early enter adulthood, the lifelong effects are finally becoming clear. But there are ways to make up for that lost time

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Life

Effects of being born prematurely shouldn't have to last forever

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Life

Whole Zika genome recovered from brain of baby with microcephaly

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Don't let ignorance triumph in the US debate on family planning

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'Ditch booze' advice to sexually active US women is step too far

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