Paralympic cheats: is pain a drug?
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Paralympic cheats: is pain a drug?
In a practice called boosting, paralympic athletes subject their body to extreme pain to raise their blood pressure and heart beat. The former captain of...
Children born in US from 40-year-old sperm
The world record for a birth from frozen sperm has risen to 40 years, a Minneapolis company claims.The world record for a birth from frozen...
Is prostitution harmful? Nope, says Journal of Medical Ethics
Among the hot topics in bioethics, prostitution does not rank highly. A quick search of the ETHXWeb bioethics database at Georgetown University yielded ten times...
Politics is in your genes
Studies asserting that political preferences are genetically determined are dog-whistles for the media and consequently great publicity for journals. So on cue, at the beginning...
Has reproductive technology made men redundant?
Men are becoming less and less relevant to reproduction and parenting, according to an op-ed in the New York Times. Men are becoming less and...
Autism linked to older fathers
Two contemporary trends have been linked by a recent article in Nature: the rising age of first-time fathers and the increasing rate of autism. Two...
Famous for being famous — and for commissioning a surrogate
Some diligent researcher should do a study of the correlation between celebrity and surrogacy“A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life...
Dutch debate euthanasia of their prince
Nearly six months ago Prince Friso, the son of Queen Beatrix, of the Netherlands, was buried in an avalanche while skiing in Austria. By the...
US doctors’ stand on circumcision changes again
For the fourth time in 40 years the American Academy of Pediatricians has changed its tune on the controversial topic of infant circumcision. It now...