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Where did we come from? How did humanity, with our complicated civilizations and all our human quirks and foibles, come to be? Much of what we know about those questions traces back to important fossil finds in Ethiopia. Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie has been key in ...  Show more

In 48 B.C.E., a massive fire ripped through the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, one of the largest and most significant ancient libraries. An estimated 100,000 works of literature were lost. Throughout history, there are lots of examples of things being “lost”: cities, like Pompe ...  Show more

Abortion pills — a combo of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol — are on notice: on April 7, 2023, a federal judge said the FDA’s approval of mifepristone was invalid. And then, not more than an hour later, another federal judge in a separate case said that mifepristone ha ...

This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America?See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Pri ...  Show more

Interview with Daniel Grossman, MD, author of Mail-Order Pharmacy Dispensing of Mifepristone for Medication Abortion After In-Person Screening, and Emily M. Godfrey, MD, MPH, author of Primary Care's Role in Prescribing Mail-Order Mifepristone. Hosted by Eve Rittenberg, MD. Relat ...  Show more

A Fifth Circuit ruling that keeps mifepristone available, but curtails access to it, is the newest front in a battle over the FDA’s power to approve medications. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices