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The recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the nearly 50-year-old legal precedent that guaranteed a constitutional right to an abortion, has people scrambling for access to medications that can end a pregnancy or prevent one. But there is already confusion over the difference between drugs for medication abortion, which are prescribed to end a pregnancy, and emergency contraceptives (including Plan B), which are taken soon after sex and prevent pregnancy. Medication abortion in the U.S. usually consists…

Editor’s Note (6/30/22): This article is being republished following the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, which limits the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Every metric ton of carbon dioxide humans emit comes at a cost—not only in terms of the financial toll of the damage wrought by floods, heat waves and droughts but also the price in human lives. Substantially curtailing emissions today could prevent tens of millions of premature deaths over the course of…

A photo of Plan B One-StepPhoto: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Pharmacy chains around the U.S have started to limit the amount of emergency contraceptive pills customers can purchase. This comes after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court.“Due to increased demand, at this time we are limiting the purchases of Plan B contraceptive pills to three per customer,” a Rite Aid representative told CNN. CVS will also be limiting the purchase of Plan B and Aftera across all CVS Pharmacy stores and itswebsite CVS.com…

Amazon has placed a temporary purchase limit of three units per week on emergency contraceptive pills, the company said on Tuesday.The move comes days after the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling that recognised women's constitutional right to abortion.Women with unwanted pregnancies in the country now may face the choice of traveling to another state where the procedure remains legal and available, buying abortion pills online, or having a potentially dangerous illegal abortion.The ruling…

Amazon is limiting sales of Plan B and other emergency contraceptives to three units per customer in the wake of increased demand, the company confirmed to . Last week’s US Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade prompted a spike in sales of Plan B and other generic brands of levonorgestrel morning-after pills.  Customers who order emergency contraception on Amazon still face a bit of a wait. Amazon’s main listing for Plan B (a popular name brand of levonorgestrel made by a company called Foundation Consumer Healthcare)…

Google on Tuesday announced that it has launched an SOS Alert feature for Assam floods to let users close to the affected areas look at emergency phone numbers, websites, and maps directly using Google Search. Alongside Google Search, Google Maps is highlighting the affected areas to assist rescue teams and people planning to give aid to the locals impacted due to the flood situation. Google.org, the charitable arm of Google, separately announced a grant to support community-based organisations providing support to…

After 2 days of deliberation, an advisory panel convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded the monkeypox outbreak that has spread to more than 50 countries does not yet warrant the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), its highest alert level. WHO currently has PHEIC declarations for polio and COVID-19, and many infectious disease scientists had expected one for monkeypox. Monkeypox is endemic in many African countries but…

The World Health Organization on Saturday said the rapid spread of monkeypox across dozens of nations does not represent a global health emergency at this time.WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described monkeypox as an evolving health threat, however, and urged governments around the world to step up surveillance, contact tracing, testing and to make sure that people at high risk have access to vaccines and antiviral treatments.The WHO convened its emergency committee to determine what level of threat…

Microsoft has officially released new Windows 10 and 11 security updates that it wants you to download. Hold on, you might be thinking, haven’t we already seen the monthly patches for June? That’s very true, but things didn’t exactly go to plan.  More than two weeks after the serious ‘Follina’ vulnerability was first discovered, Microsoft fixed it and several other bugs. We’d still highly recommend you install it, but it hasn’t been plain sailing for those who already have.   The Wi-Fi hotspot feature has been…

Lil Tjay was reportedly shot overnight in the Edgewater area of New Jersey.According to TMZ, which cited “law enforcement sources,” 21-year-old Tjay was set to undergo emergency surgery following the alleged shooting. The report further alleges the incident was comprised of one shooting at a local Chipotle, as well as another shooting at a gas station. While the report also includes mention of a second victim, additional information had not been made public at the time of this writing.Complex has reached out to reps for…