"Global malaria control is one of the great public health success stories of the last 15 years" A study by the University of Oxford (Nature doi:10.1038/nature15535) estimates that 663 million cases of malaria have been averted in the last 15 years …Read more.
Euthanasia, a Slippery slope that could end in involuntary euthanasia Euthanasia was legalised in Belgium in 2002, where is defined as "the intentional termination of a patient's life by a physician at the patient's request" but… Read more.
In June this year, Layla Richards, a one-year-old girl who had been diagnosed with an aggressive form leukaemia at 14 weeks old received a novel treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London… Read more.
This physiological mechanism is only just beginning to be understood. In a previous article, we referred to the maternal foetal dialogue in the genomic area. It is now known… Read more.
Human genome sequencing revealed the order of the 3 billion letters of A, C, G and T, but not what they mean. A study by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in the latest edition of international science journal Nature... Read more.
On 11th September 2015, the British Chamber of Commons voted by a large majority against a bill that proposed legalizing euthanasia by 330 votes against to 118 in favour. Among the principal voices that contributed… Read more.
Last December, in the court in Waldshut (Germany), another civil proceedings were opened against Bayer because of the higher risks of serious adverse reactions associated... Read more.
According to a Eurostat report, the european fertility rates in 2008 was 1.61 children per woman. Later, with the eruption of the economic crisis, the figure could only worsen, falling to 1.58 in 2012... Read more.
Some authors have proposed accepting assisted suicide in patients with treatment-resistant depression (Journal Medicine Ethics 41; 577-83,2015). However, their arguments are called into question… Read more.
