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Gynuity Health Projects, a research organization conducting clinical trials aimed at expanding access to the abortion pill and overturning the Food and Drug Administration’s safety requirements, is funded by organizations with deep historic ties to the American eugenics movement. Gynuity’s donor list includes organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Planned Parenthood, the Population Council, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Society for Family Planning, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tara Health Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In 1996, the Packard Foundation seeded the pill’s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, Inc.,...

Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this prehistoric people have been discovered. Today, a team of Indian and American researchers are using mathematics and computer science to try to piece together information about the still-unknown script. The team led by a University of Washington researcher has used computers to extract patterns in ancient Indus symbols. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows distinct patterns in the symbols'...

A 20-Year Journey: The History of the Abortion Pill Hosted By: Michelle La Mothe, MD, MPH, MSc, Consultant: Professional Education, Public Health and Medical Communications Participants: Richard Hausknecht, MD - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Danco Laboratories Beverly Winikoff, MD, MPH - Population Council Webcast Transcript: Recorded Live: November 9 2000 MICHELLE LA MOTHE, MD: Hello. Welcome to our webcast. I'm Dr. Michelle La Mothe. Recently approved by the FDA, mifepristone, long known as RU-486, has a long history of development. It was first developed in France but it has taken 20 years for this drug to be approved in...