SPECIAL REPORTS

ONU report defending disabilities persons but respecting "right" to abortion and euthanasia

The UNs’ latest Report on the rights of disabled persons is a thorough review of the work that has been done in the past year, suggesting strategies. However, it contains a stunning paradox … Read more.

Confusing terminology created by language engineering: “medically assisted dying” (MAD)

Along with the objective, medical and ethical problems posed by euthanasia and assisted suicide, no less controversial are, those that arise in relation to language engineering used around them… Read more.

New systematic review of abortion effect of IUD devices.

Ideological and political motivations have been imposed on scientific criteria. An extensive systematic review assesses the scientific evidence on the potential for pregnancy and subsequent embryo loss in women who use intrauterine devices - IUD… Read more.

NEWS

Scientific studies of mental health of transgender children supported by their parents are questioned

In different articles, our Observatory has pointed out the lack of evidence in transgender scientific studies and treatments. Now a comprehensive study has evaluated previous scientific work on the mental health of these children… Read more.

Florence Nightingale, whose bicentenary is commemorated this year, has saved lives based on statistics

Few people have had such a strong impact on nursing and healthcare as her. But the headline of the article, “Saving lives with statistics,” taken from the BBC, accurately reflects one of her most defining aspects… Read more.

"The dad who gave birth" claims fatherhood but the English court defends the biological evidence

A recent article published in the UK newspaper The Guardian, entitled “Transgender man loses appeal court battle to be registered as the father”, shows the extremes that the confusion of sexes imposed by gender ideology can reach… Read more.

IN BRIEF

Every year 47,000 Americans die by suicide when is a preventable public health problem. The social impact of the suicide epidemic

Mental Health Awareness Month. Last figures of suicide in the United States

Suicide continues to be a devastating public health problem in the United States. The last figures show that this epidemic is not controlled in the country. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this issue is one of the leading causes of death across all age groups but with a higher incidence in the age group of 15 to 29… Read more.

The Royal College of Physicians is opposed to changing the law on euthanasia and assisted suicide in the U.K.

Both euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal under English law as most countries… Read more.

The study showed that life expectancy in the mice with Gaucher’s disease was significantly prolonged after gene therapy before birth

Regenerative medicine. Rats' heart muscle regenerated

Heart failure is caused by injury to the myocardium (the heart muscle), resulting in irreversible loss because this tissue cannot regenerate itself. Now, Bargehr and collaborators have managed to derive epicardial cells and growth factors from human embryonic stem cells… Read more.