Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Indonesia declares state of emergency as virus toll jumps

Indonesian leader Joko Widodo declared a state of emergency Tuesday as coronavirus deaths in the world's fourth most populous country jumped again, but he resisted calls for a nationwide lockdown.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Can robots help care for people with dementia?

As our populations continue to age the issue of how we deliver care to the elderly continues to be an incredibly important issue. But with the number of older people set to reach 1 billion in the next 10 years and the demand ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Fighting for children's rights in the high-tech fertility age

In a time when the fertility business in the U.S. is booming and so much is possible—artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy, and potentially, bioengineering of embryos—there are few, if any, ...

Health

Quebec moves to allow assisted suicide (Update)

The government of Canada's mostly French-speaking Quebec province on Wednesday unveiled legislation allowing terminally ill patients to kill themselves with a doctor's help.

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