August 20, 2019
(Australia Broadcasting Co) – I arrive at the Sonechko Children’s Home, a collection of rundown double-storey brick buildings in a city south east of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. I’m here to meet a little girl I’ve been searching for over … Read More
August 1, 2019
(The Economist) – Mr Funago, a member of the opposition group Reiwa Shinsengumi, is one of two wheelchair-bound lawmakers to win seats in the upper house in elections on July 21st, along with Eiko Kimura, who is paralysed from the … Read More
July 29, 2019
(The Japan Times) – “More than 16,500 women and men were sterilized against their will,” reads a newsletter published in 1997 by the Network on Ethics and Intellectual Disability. Shocking. Less so now, as recent developments having made the fact … Read More
July 26, 2019
(Spectrum) – The results echo those of a 2017 study at Duke University that reported that infusions of stem cells taken from stored umbilical cord blood are safe. “When there’s more than one group reporting similar results, it tends to … Read More
July 18, 2019
(STAT News) – The immediate aim of the San Francisco startup is a system enabling people who are paralyzed to use their thoughts to operate computers and smartphones. That has been done before, including by Schwartz’s group and one at … Read More
July 11, 2019
(New Scientist) – Five Russian couples who are deaf want to try the CRISPR gene-editing technique so they can have a biological child who can hear, biologist Denis Rebrikov has told New Scientist. He plans to apply to the relevant … Read More
July 11, 2019
(Fox News) – A mother of a 4-year-old son with special needs is suing a British hospital alleging they failed to test for the condition — otherwise she would’ve had an abortion. Edyta Mordel, 33, of Reading, wants almost $250,000 in compensation for the cost of … Read More
July 8, 2019
(New Scientist) – Among a group of about 200 babies born to mothers who had contracted Zika virus, about one third had developmental delays, but not all of them were lasting. About half of the babies with abnormal assessments early … Read More
July 5, 2019
(New Scientist) – Surgeons have reanimated the hands and arms of people who are paralysed by connecting up working nerves to the injured ones, giving people the ability to use their phones, apply make-up and feed themselves again. The surgery … Read More
June 24, 2019
(Fox News) – A British judge ordered Friday that an abortion be performed on a mentally disabled woman who is 22 weeks pregnant, despite objections from the woman and her mother. Justice Nathalie Lieven admits in the ruling of the “heartbreaking” … Read More
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