Dig into the history of artificial donor insemination even a little, and it reveals itself to be fraught in that special, messed-up way unique to stories of medical progress.
A Brief History of Artificial Donor Insemination
by Cara GiaimoScope Correspondent
posted December 18, 2014 at 12:05 am
One Danish company now ships sperm by bicycle. (via Wikimedia Commons)
Controversial New Hypothesis Probes Complexities of Obesity Epidemic
by Sarah SchwartzScope Correspondent
posted November 30, 2014 at 6:23 pm
The National Institutes of Health describes the childhood obesity epidemic as “a devastating public health crisis.” In just thirty years, obesity rates in American children in have doubled, reaching 18% as of 2012. An excess of body fat places these children at increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. But how did we get here? A controversial hypothesis published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings has proposed a new way to answer the question—and it doesn’t begin with the usual suspects.
Image from CDC PHIL, via George Stepanek, Wikimedia Commons
