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When it comes to medical diagnoses and health markers, period blood is something of a superpower. We should leverage it. 

My choice is to leave all planning, preparation and worrying about food to my husband. That feels like a radical feminist act.

Her name may not be a household name, but ‘HeLa cells’ from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix changed the world.

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