In Canada, it is unlawful to aid or abet a suicide, and the crime can lead to 14 years in prison. Physician-assisted dying getting recognition can help hundreds of patients to end their unbearable suffering.
University of California students will have to be vaccinated against measles and other diseases under rules that take effect in 2017, the university said on Friday.
A woman who got a stool transplant from an overweight donor became increasingly obese after the treatment. The woman patient had a healthier weight and a regular body mass index.
Britain's House of Commons passes a historic law that allows two mothers and one father to create a baby.
More than half of the 23 major hospitals in the nation are already using or will soon use Apple's new HealthKit technology, according to a report from Reuters.
American's are quite stressed out in general. A new study found that millennials had higher stress than any other generation in the nation.
Wouldn't it be great to have a app that you can use in the privacy of your own home to test for illnesses such as syphilis or HIV and get the results in 15 minutes? Well, that's all a reality now thanks to engineers at Columbia University.
A Massachusetts toddler has died after suffocating while she was being treated for head lice, according to reports.
It was found that a scientist working with Ebola caused the most horrible outbreak in West Africa in 2014. The virus was accidentally transferred from a high-biosecurity lab to a lower-biosecurity, which was not prepared or authorized to handle live Ebola.
The human brain's neural network is like a social network. The strongest bonds are formed between like-minded cells.
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