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Our newsroom is taking a brief hiatus from covering the globe. While we're on vacation, we'll be sending you the past year's best stories — because if you haven't read it yet, it's new(s) to you!
Up today: The Conversation Global's favourite Health + Medicine coverage, from Gideon Lasco's buzzed-about article on Asia's male skin-whitening trend to Selen Gobelez Dumas' probe into
Turkey's high C-section rates. Plus, Brazilian scientist Rafael Guimarães dos Santos looks at whether a sacred Amazonian plant can actually cure addiction.
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A growing number of young Asian men are using a plethora of whitening products.
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Gideon Lasco, University of Amsterdam
Skin whitening among women has long been commonplace, but now young Asian men too, are using a plethora of whitening products.
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Jessica Bogard, The University of Queensland
The focus of food production systems, including aquaculture, must move beyond maximising yields to consider nutritional quality too.
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Ayahuasca has been used for spiritual and therapeutic purposes by indigenous healers in Brazil’s northwestern Acre state for centuries.
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Rafael Guimarães dos Santos, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Western science is "discovering" the medical potential of ayahuasca, which Amazonian indigenous groups have used ritualistically for centuries.
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Gideon Lasco, University of Amsterdam
The ongoing debate is a continuation of the Philippines' long journey towards reproductive health - and its having been turned into a political and moral issue by various actors.
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Turkey has the highest number of cesarean sections among OECD countries.
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Selen Göbelez Dumas, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Turkey's high cesarean rates cannot be tackled by top-down restrictive laws.
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