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07/28/2025

B.C. IVF funding starts, but doctor says it's 'not enough'

Friday marks World IVF Day, celebrating the first successful IVF birth in 1978 and the advancements in fertility medicine since then.

07/22/2025

More interesting science, this time from my alma mater.

https://www.facebook.com/100064362382737/posts/1166305935524808/

The vaccination of pregnant people has been linked to a drop in newborns being admitted to hospital with a serious lung infection 🤰💉

Researchers found the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine has led to a 72% reduction in babies hospitalised with RSV if the pregnant parent was vaccinated.

The findings are the first to show the real-world effectiveness of the vaccine on pregnancies in the UK. Read the story at the link in comments 🔗

07/22/2025

This is amazing science!

IVF method using 3 people's DNA prevented genetic disease: research

Eight children in the U.K. have been spared from devastating genetic diseases thanks to a new three-person in vitro fertilization technique, scientists from Newcastle University reported on Wednesday.

07/20/2025

It's funny because it's often true (and if we don't laugh, we cry). I'm here for you mamas!

https://www.facebook.com/imserenaterry/videos/1009139417782714/

07/16/2025

Vaginal speculum redesigned by engineers

It is cold, hard, metallic and commonly associated with pain. Not a mediaeval torture instrument, but the vaginal speculum used every day around the world for essential gynecological exams.

07/16/2025

07/16/2025

https://www.facebook.com/100064842962045/posts/1212000567638031/

06/20/2025

Please, please be careful.

https://www.facebook.com/100063850050913/posts/1197379669067024/

"Dr. Andrew Clark, a psychiatrist in Boston, learned that an increasing number of young people were turning to therapists for guidance and support. Clark was intrigued: If designed correctly, these AI tools could increase much-needed access to affordable care. He decided to test some of the most popular bots on the market, posing as teenage patients in need.
The results were alarming. The bots encouraged him to “get rid of” his parents and to join the bot in the afterlife to “share eternity.” They often tried to convince him that they were licensed human therapists and encouraged him to cancel appointments with actual psychologists. They also crossed the line into sexual territory, with one bot suggesting an intimate date as an “intervention” for violent urges."
[read the rest of this article online at: time . com]

06/16/2025

https://www.facebook.com/100057070315212/posts/1273695201209478/

Martin Couney was never a doctor. He never held a medical license. He never even set foot in a medical school.
But he saved over 7,000 lives.

In the early 1900s, when the world saw premature babies as nature’s mistakes—too fragile, too hopeless—Couney saw something different: a future. While eugenicists said, “Let them die,” Couney insisted, “Let’s fight.”

So he put on a show.
On Coney Island, between the cotton candy stands and the ferris wheel, Couney displayed premature babies in incubators—right there, as part of an amusement park attraction. Because hospitals didn’t want these babies. Medicine ignored them. The only way to fund their care was through the price of admission, paid by curious visitors.

Inspired by what he saw at the Chicago World’s Fair—chicken incubators being used to warm tiny infants—Couney turned what many called madness into a miracle. He treated each baby with care, warmth, and dignity, all while the world watched.

What science refused, the sideshow embraced.
What the elite called a freak show, Couney turned into salvation.

By the time his “show” ended in 1943, nearly every hospital in America had adopted incubators for premature infants. The world changed because one so-called “imposter” dared to defy death—not with a degree, but with vision, courage, and a compassion for those the world wanted to forget.

Today, thousands are alive because Martin Couney believed every life was worth saving—even when no one else did.


~ The Two Pennies