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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…

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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…

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India's ABC Programme Promises to Control Stray Dog Populations, Here Is Where Sterilisation Fails

What the ABC Programme Actually MandatesThe Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, first notified in 2001 and significantly revised in 2023, require every municipal body in India to sterilise and vaccinate free-roaming dogs, return them to their original location, and maintain ward-level records. The programme does not permit culling, the Supreme…

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Is Clavicular really trying for a baby with Lily Snyder? Influencer reveals plans despite past infertility claims

Clavicular says he and Lily Snyder are trying to have a baby after stopping birth control. The 20-year-old influencer previously claimed he was unable to have children because of testosterone use. During a recent Kick livestream, he said he plans to take testosterone while trying for a child. The couple…

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Only One GLP-1 Drug Carries a Birth Control Warning, and the Class Is Not Interchangeable

Tirzepatide labels tell patients on the pill to add a barrier method for four weeks. Semaglutide carries no equivalent warning.

Medical Daily

Researchers Examine Whether Falling Birth Control Pill Use Is Linked to Rising Abortion Numbers

Abortion numbers have risen in the US. Researchers are divided on whether shifting contraception use explains it, and the data are limited.

Medical Daily

What Animal Rescue Organisations in India Are Doing That Government Programmes Cannot

The number that explains everythingA female dog, left unsterilised, can produce two litters a year. Each litter averages six to eight pups. Factor in her female offspring doing the same, and the arithmetic becomes staggering within three to four years. The WHO has estimated India's stray dog population at roughly…

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‘Why do I feel crappy?’: women are learning about their luteal phases - and Maha is weaponizing it

People have found language for moodiest part of their menstrual cycles, and the right has seized on it

The Guardian - US

Ex Tries To Embarrass Woman For Breaking Up With Him, Ends Up Being The Joke

Breaking up with a toxic partner is supposed to bring peace, but for one woman, it only marked the beginning of a bizarre ordeal. After ending a short-lived relationship, she started receiving unexpected calls from strangers who believed she was offering certain services for money. Furious after discovering who was…

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Couple agrees to be childless, but when she finds herself pregnant, his response is excitement: ‘My whole world tilted’

His later reaction made her suspicious about what really happened since she was on birth control.

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America grows more socially conservative as more people say they are against having a baby outside marriage

In the past year, the share of Americans who consider having a baby outside marriage acceptable dropped nearly 10 points

The Independent UK

If You Take A Common Birth Control Pill, You Might Soon Be Able To Skip The GP Script Altogether

Women in NSW can now sort their pill script at some pharmacies instead of battling for a GP appointment. Here's how it works.

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10 Period Symptoms That Could Signal A Health Problem

Periods are a normal part of life, yet they often come with symptoms that leave many women wondering whether what they're experiencing is normal. Is heavy bleeding just part of your cycle? Are painful cramps something you simply have to live with? Or could your body be trying to tell…

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What's an Encyclical? From workers’ rights to AI, five letters from Popes that left a global impact

Pope Leo XIV unveiled his encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” addressing human dignity in the AI era. This historic document, presented with an AI pioneer, marks the Catholic Church's continued engagement with contemporary challenges through its ancient tradition of papal letters. The encyclical joins a lineage of influential papal teachings on critical…

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Reduced health insurance payments for hospital births had a bigger impact on sterilization rates than correcting an injustice

For decades, female sterilization has been one of the most common forms of birth control in the U.S.: 11.5% of U.S. women, ages 15-49, use female sterilization as their primary contraceptive method – nearly identical to the pill.

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Protestant leaders once championed birth control – not to liberate women, but as part of ‘responsible parenthood’

Mother’s Day seems like a strange time to celebrate birth control, which, on its most basic level, is about helping people to not become mothers – or not become mothers again.

Android Central

Oura sees a gap in women's health, rolls out birth control support and more

Oura is stepping up its women's health game, announcing the arrival of birth control support and Menopause Insights in an upcoming May patch.

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Woman denied permanent birth control on NHS wins case with ombudsman

Leah Spasova from Oxfordshire fought for 10 years to obtain tubal ligation procedure, while men could get vasectomies

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Oura’s newest update could change how women track hormonal health

Birth control and menopause insights bring more context to everyday data

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Health information delivered as a video game can bridge the communication gap between patients and providers

Imagine you and your partner are sitting in the waiting room of your doctor’s office, waiting for your appointment to get birth control – and instead of calculating how many other people will be called before you, or perusing old magazines, a nurse hands you a digital tablet and encourages…

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49 Scientists Share Their Biggest Theories That Are Not Yet Proven

We once believed the Earth was flat. Nowadays, we're sending crews to space, inventing cures for strange diseases, and employing robots to do the jobs of human beings. But we still don't know it all. Scientists are sharing the unproven theories they *believe* to be true. Here's a list of…

Medical Daily

Effectiveness Rates of Hormonal Pills and Oral Contraceptives and Common Birth Control Side Effects

Learn how oral contraceptives and hormonal pills work, their effectiveness rates, and common birth control side effects to make informed, safe contraception choices.

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Natural Cycles: Understanding Your Body the Natural Way

Is Natural Cycles effective? Explore how this FDA-approved fertility tracking app works, its accuracy, benefits, and whether it’s right for you.

The Guardian - US

Millions of Americans might lose access to birth control. Why?

Untold numbers will get sick as a result. Clinics are scrambling, and no one seems to be able to explain why this is happening

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Elon Musk Has Linked Birth Control to Not Finding Henry Cavill Attractive

So he DOES find Henry Cavill attractive or...?

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