That’s when she was treated with MRI-guided high-frequency focused ultrasound. “Using sound waves that get through the brain and create that, sort of, thermal heating, in the area that we’re ...

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A judge in Ecuador has ordered the detention of 16 air force members accused of involvement in the disappearance of four children, whose charred remains were discovered weeks after they were seen ...

Sixteen-year-old Dea Kurti is juggling school and a social life while trying to bridge the tech gender gap and empower refugees. Video by Elettra Fiumi. Rami Malek tells the BBC's Graham Norton ...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer believes 16-year-olds are too young to change their legally recognised gender. The UK Labour leader voiced "concerns" about the Scottish government's reforms to the ...

Unable at 25 to reconcile pregnancy with my gender, I had simply drifted through pregnancy to the end, distancing, dissociating. Then, a few sessions later, my new chance had come: We now had ...

A pregnant wife has revealed how her husband “lashed out” when he was told the sex of their baby during a recent ultrasound appointment ... and demanded they see another doctor after hearing the ...