The zig-zag history of surgical treatment of spinal bifida
When is a clinical assessment ‘objective’? A brief history of surgical treatment of spinal bifida in newborns in The Lancet raises interesting questions about the...
Researchers discover how to help paralysed patients with brain to text communication
It may be possible to type without using hands F. Willett et al./Nature 2021/Erika Woodrum Scientists are exploring a number of ways for people who...
If standard IVF works, why all the expensive add-ons?
ICSI is no more effective than standard IVF “Standard IVF is fine for most people. So why are so many offered an expensive sperm injection...
‘Uterine morality’
I had never heard of the term "uterine morality" until this week. At first I thought that it must mean a more traditional approach to...
‘Uterine morality’: feminist eugenics in China
Is it a crime to have ugly children? Like the coronavirus, eugenics keeps morphing and mutating to adapt to new environments. In China, for instance,...
South Carolina may replace lethal injections with firing squads for capital punishment
The state is having difficulty in sourcing lethal medications Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, Barcelona, site of executions during the Spanish Civil War The American...
New Zealand super heavyweight weightlifter could become first openly transgender Olympic athlete
Laurel Hubbard is currently ranked 16th in the world Forty-three-year-old transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will almost certainly represent New Zealand in the women’s super heavyweight...
US birth rate is the lowest since records began
For mothers of every major race and ethnicity, and in nearly every age group. The birth rate in the United States fell 4% in 2020....
Seattle biotech bypasses regulators to test controversial dementia treatment
CEO wants to jump-start a promising gene therapy Elizabeth Parris A Seattle biotech company has bypassed US regulators and sent six volunteers with dementia to...
UK Health Secretary appears to change his mind on assisted suicide
Matt Hancock has asked for statistics on suicide and terminal illness. Political resistance in the United Kingdom to assisted suicide seems to be weakening after...
German doctors drop opposition to assisted suicide after high court ruling
Bundestag also moves to update legislation German doctors have dropped their opposition to assisted suicide, in a controversial move which could pave the way for...
Australian moves on ‘assisted dying’
South Australia could be the next to legalise it South Australia. SA’s Upper House voted for the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide this week....