End the farse, free doctors

Robert Templer, Asia program director of the International Crisis Group called government of Sri Lanka to alter course, provide a clear timetable to resettle the IDPs,  and release the doctors. An estimated...

G.L. Pieris seeks Japanese aid for Sri lanka

G.L. Pieris who is the Trade Minister for Sri Lanka has sought aid from Japan to help the country recover from its ethnic conflict. " TOKYO (AFP) — Sri Lanka's trade minister on Wednesday sought Japan's help for its recovery from ethnic conflict, while reiterating his...

Face Transplant Recipient Connie Culp Offers Thanks

Connie Culp, 46, is the recipient of the first United States face transplant, by the Cleveland Clinic in the United States.   She was shot in the face from 8 feet away in an attempted murder/suicide by...

Women Surfing for Super Sperm

In Canada, sperm donors cannot be paid. Hence donations have dropped. In the UK, the laws have changed  to allow children to find their fathers. Donations have dropped there too. It seems the good old USA,...

Use aborted foetus organs in transplants, urges scientist

An Oxford University  stem cell expert, Professor Sir Richard Gardner, has suggested using the "kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses" to be given to patients in need of  a kidney transplant or liver transplant. " Kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses could be...

Can we really transplant a human soul?

" Written by Danny Penman    The progress of medical science in the past 30 years has been so rapid that yesterday's miracles are tomorrow's commonplace procedures. So it has proved with heart transplants, which have...

Moguls and Arab States Are Big Donors to Clinton Charity

I am not sure if we needed all this information.  I can't see how any of this could create a conflict with Hillary Clinton serving as secretary of state.This is more than enough information. " The governments...

Nation's First Face Transplant Done in Cleveland

Reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow of Cleveland Clinic has just finished the nation's first near-total face transplant - 80% of the patient's face - with that of a dead female donor. The first partial face...

Fertility treatments linked to certain birth defects

Many babies are created in this way.  As the number goes up, birth defects will increase... More caution must be employed to prevent this from happening."ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A new study from the Centers...

US 'pregnant man' expecting again.......questioning nature?

Natural law is at challange again, this time by a male who is ready to give birth to child. " Thomas Beatie, the US "pregnant man" who gave birth to a daughter in June, is expecting his second child. The...

AIDS Patient Is Reported Cured

Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...

Pig organs ‘available to patients in a decade’

Pig organs have for a long time been seen as a possibly beeing able to be used as in humans but rejection has been a problem. Now scientists have announced that using genetically modified pigs bred specifically...

Charitable Gifts Increase Despite Credit Crisis

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Schwab Charitable, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing national donor-advised funds with 12,000 donors and nearly $2 billion in assets, announced today that...

German Man Receives World's First Double Arm Transplant

A German man received the world's first complete double arm transplant and is adjusting well to his new arms, although it could take as long as two years before he gains functionality in his hands.  The nerves are predicted to grow down the arm at a daily rate of 1mm,...

Spielberg Donates $100,000 to Support Gay Marriage

Following Brad Pitt's $100k lead from last week, Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw have joined the fight for gay rights and matched Pitt's donation of $100,000 to oppose California's Proposition 8 which...

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