Saintly scientists: ‘Love always wins’

Monica Rafie | 26 April 2007 | comment 5

It is a fitting motto for a heart surgeon who could also one day be declared a saint.

Born too soon

Carlo Bellieni | 03 January 2007

Increasing numbers of babies are born very premature or below weight. Should we try to save them all?

Health warning: shopping is addictive

Theron Bowers | 06 December 2006

Help is near for holiday shopaholics from American psychiatrists.

Special workers

Alejo Sison | 09 November 2006 | comment 1

An unusual Spanish business model employs disabled workers and turns a convincing profit.

AIDS: what’s happening in Uganda?

Carolyn Moynihan | 19 April 2006

Ugandan paediatrician Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige faces the scourge of AIDS every day in her young patients. In this interview she suggests that the solution is not more condoms.

Killing me softly with his song

Michael Cook | 18 January 2006

Euthanasia is back in the news. And no one is more qualified to lead the movement into the 21st century than Philip Nitschke.

What happens to kids who do drugs when theyre old codgers?

Michael Cook | 28 December 2005

New Year celebrations are often a time for recreation drug use. It’s not a good idea, says Britain’s foremost expert on the medical effects of illegal drugs, Professor John Henry.

Your gender is not an accident

Carolyn Moynihan | 15 October 2005 | comment 37

The idea of medical intervention to change one's sex has gained credibility in recent years. Dr Rick Fitzgibbons thinks that it has been a great mistake.

Will Katrina survivors need brigades of grief counsellors?

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 September 2005

Along with the National Guard, an army of grief and trauma counsellors is bearing down on the people uprooted by hurricane Katrina. But is that what they really need?

Diagnosing Down syndrome: please dont say sorry

Carolyn Moynihan | 03 September 2005

Doctors are getting better at telling parents their baby has Down syndrome. According to research by a Harvard medical student, they need to.

Sleep is for wimps or is it?

Carolyn Moynihan | 19 August 2005

The simple fact that most of us are sleep deprived could be the cause of much family tension and psychological angst.

The great brain robbery

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 July 2005

What do drugs do the developing teenage brain? Trevor Grice talks to MercatorNet about the latest news on recreational drugs and why The Great Brain Robbery is the most stolen book in his home country, New Zealand.

Bomb scare

Carolyn Moynihan | 02 July 2005

Infertility is a time bomb threatening the very existence of Europe, experts in the field said this week. Is anyone taking them seriously?

Calibrating happiness

Carolyn Moynihan | 24 June 2005

By 2020 depression will be the second-largest cause of disability in the world for both men and women of all ages. So researchers are beavering away on what makes us happy. Have they got it right?

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