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  • Arm Transplants Performed by Mexican Doctors: Would you Give Your Right Arm?

    Health Mexico|Updated Jun 10, 2016

    Mexico´s National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition "Salvador Zubiran" (INCMNSZ by its initials in Spanish) of the Health Ministry, is the only medical unit in Latin America to perform two successful upper limb transplants. Because of its high complexity, require the participation of a health professionals multidisciplinary team, from more than 15 specialities. At a press conference, was reported that Mexico is one of the 19 countries where it has been conducted...

  • As California Assisted Suicide Law Takes Effect, Lawsuit Seeks to Halt It

    Christine Emerson, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Jun 9, 2016

    On the day the legislation takes effect, a group opposing California's new assisted suicide law have filed a lawsuit seeking a restraining order against suicide facilitators, who may administer lethal drugs prescribed by physician to terminally ill patients. The lawsuit claims that the civil rights of the terminally ill are violated by the assisted suicide legislation under the Equal Protection clause. The lawsuit was filed by five physicians in Southern California and by the...

  • Do Fish feel pain? Do lobsters suffer trauma from domestic or urban captivity?

    Sabine Rose, Linfield College|Updated Jun 9, 2016

    As science continues to delve into the depths of Earth's taxonomic soup, an increasing amount of evidence suggests we are not the only people on the planet. For centuries, humans have held the conviction of our uniqueness to be sacrosanct. We claimed it was our intelligence, our self-awareness, or our capacity for martyrdom that differentiated us from the mass of claws and fangs that writhed mindlessly beneath our shoes, the "wild beasts" trapped in an evolutionary back...