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How Do You Live Knowing You Might Have an Alzheimer’s Gene?

A story of a man whose family carries an Alzheimer’s gene.

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Israel to allow gay men to conceive children via surrogates

A committee appointed by Israel’s Health Ministry has issued groundbreaking recommendations Sunday regarding fertility and birth polices, among them allowing gay men to use a surrogate mother in order to conceive a child.

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Britons paying up to £25k to buy children from Indian ‘baby factories’

Britons desperate to become parents are fuelling a booming and unregulated surrogacy industry in India provoking serious ethical and legal concerns.

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Cancer trial participants may have misconceptions

People enrolled in early stage trials for possible cancer treatments may underestimate the risks involved and overestimate the potential benefits, suggests a new study.

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Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past)

It could be that we are on the verge of a great deluge of cognitive enhancement. Or it’s possible that new brain-enhancing drugs and technologies will be nothing compared to how we’ve transformed our minds in the past. If it seems that making ourselves “artificially” smarter is somehow inhuman, it may be that similar activities are actually what made us human.

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How Doctors Die

It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us.

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Should doctors ever lie to their patients?

We expect our physicians to always be truthful; this survey apparently shows that there is a considerable amount of lying going on, withholding of the truth, and not being forthright. What’s wrong?

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No transplant for dying dad who is illegal immigrant

Without a new kidney, Jesus Navarro will die. However, a kidney transplant but was denied due to his legal status.

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U.S. begins stem cell trial for hearing loss

U.S. researchers have begun a groundbreaking trial to test the potential of umbilical cord blood transplants, a kind of stem cell therapy, to treat and possibly reverse hearing loss in infants.

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Hospitals may make more money by keeping patients on dialysis than by transplanting kidneys

A new strategy to increase kidney transplantations from live donors has been launched by NHS Blood and Transplant.

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