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Maybe. A nine-year study in Bolivia found an unexpected association between the parasitic worms in a woman's guts and her fertility.

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Sensors that work inside the body are gaining new skills. The latest versions can track heart rate and respiratory rate, as well as temperature, as it travels through the digestive system.

Will Self's latest book, Umbrella, is a complex and brilliant novel set in a North London psychiatric hospital. Reviewer Annalisa Quinn says it shines a light onto 20th century psychiatry with inventive and dazzling prose.

It's a way seniors can support each other and age in place

When Dr. Odontuya Davaasuren saw how much her father and mother suffered, she was determined to bring palliative care to her homeland.

Critics blasted the Marine Corps for not publishing its full study on how gender integration affected combat readiness. NPR obtained the 978-page report.

He came into the hospital in bad shape. In addition to being HIV-positive, he had what looked like a malignant tumor. The tumor, it turned out, was not human.

According to a new study, Asian American hosts earn about 20 percent less than their white counterparts on AirBnB.

Many extremely popular women writers of the 19th century are now pretty much forgotten — and gone with the wind.