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Why street dogs guard specific lanes: how pack territory actually works

The dog that charges your gate every evening is not randomly aggressive. It has a job, a boundary, and a reason, and the lane itself is the reason. A territory is built from food, not instinct aloneStreet dog packs form around a reliable food source. A lane with a dhaba,…

Times Pets · Oct 31

Why a street dog follows you home: what it's actually looking for

A dog that has lived on the street is not naive. It has learned, through daily trial and error, which humans are safe to approach and which are not. When one chooses to follow you, it has already made a risk assessment in your favour. What the dog is actually…

Times Pets · Oct 31

Global sexual health: why communal knowledge about pleasure and wellbeing matters

For decades, discussions and decisions about access to contraception, abortion, maternal healthcare, HIV prevention and treatment, comprehensive sexuality education, gender equity, and protection from sexual violence have largely flowed in one direction. From the global north to the global south.

The Conversation · Oct 27

Epilepsy Drugs That Can Weaken Birth Control Overlapped with Contraceptive Prescriptions for More Than 7,000 Medicaid Patients

A Neurology study of Medicaid patients with epilepsy found that nearly one-third had seizure drug prescriptions overlapping with birth control, which can weaken the drugs.

Medical Daily · Oct 9

Pregnant While Taking Ozempic or Mounjaro? Large Review Offers Early Reassurance, but Stopping Before Pregnancy Is Still Advised

A review of 43,000+ women found no clear link between GLP-1 drugs and major pregnancy complications. Labels still say to stop before a planned pregnancy.

Medical Daily · Oct 3

Trump’s pick to lead the FDA won’t say if she thinks birth control is abortion, alarming advocates

Heidi Overton could revisit mifepristone’s approval and wouldn’t answer questions about IUDs in her Senate confirmation hearing

The Independent UK · Sep 25

Trump FDA nominee tight-lipped on whether she thinks women are contaminating America’s drinking water with birth control and abortion pills

She won't say whether it's possible for Trump be wrong about anything, ever.

We Got This Covered · Sep 25

A 33-Year-Old Saw Everyone's Eyes Fused Together, and Doctors Traced It to a Clot in Her Brain's Veins

A woman 28 days into birth control saw faces with fused eyes. The cause was a clot in her brain's veins, a link rarely reported.

Medical Daily · Sep 24

TNR in Indian Neighbourhoods: How Trap, Neuter and Return Actually Shrinks Stray Cat Colony Numbers

Why removing cats from a colony does not reduce the colonyA stray cat removed from a territory leaves a resource vacuum. Other cats move in within days, sometimes from adjacent streets, sometimes from the same litter born weeks earlier. This is called the vacuum effect, and it is the reason…

Times Life · Sep 13

Feeding Street Dogs in Your Housing Society: What Courts and Animal Welfare Rules Actually Say in India

The Law That Most RWAs Pretend Does Not ExistThe Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, is the foundational statute. Section 11 of the Act makes it a punishable offence to beat, kick, torture, or cause unnecessary pain to any animal, including a street dog on your society's premises. The…

Times Life · Sep 13