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Holly Baxter

Executive Editor@h0llyb4xter

Holly Baxter is a senior staff writer at The Independent's bureau in New York

<p>Boys are falling behind in schools, have worse mental health, and are being raised in age where ‘toxic masculinity’ is a mainstream phrase. What are the consequences?</p>

Health & Families

So you’ve had a boy. Now how the heck do you raise him?

<p>Debris is seen outside a damaged American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic after a bomb blast outside the building in Palm Springs, California. The idea of ‘Efilism’ has been linked to the bombing. </p>

Was ‘efilism’ behind the Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing?

<p>Kayla Barnes-Lentz using her NanoVi machine</p>

The newest and most dedicated biohackers are women

<p>Andy Sandness viewing his new face in the mirror during his recovery from a pioneering 56-hour operation at Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. The doctor who performed the surgery, Dr. Samir Mardini, is pictured at the foot of the bed</p>

The 56-hour face transplant surgery that changed multiple lives