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The beginning of February saw the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which marks another day of tolerance towards intersex FGM. While we in the intersex…
February 13, 2013Read More
Professor John Duncan, author of “How Intelligence Happens” and Assistant Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, explains how our thoughts are processed in the…
July 2, 2012Read More
The impact of war and terrorism on children has been the focus of a growing number of studies worldwide. Questions have been raised about children’s vulnerability to the stress that…
May 24, 2012Read More
Dr. Lora Heisler and Dr. Justin Rochford reflect on the interrelation of biology, behaviour and obesity. Obesity represents a major medical and economic challenge of the 21st century. In the…
January 19, 2012Read More
The UK has lifted restrictions on blood donations from men who have had sex with men to bring the rules into line with other group of people with high-risk sexual…
September 8, 2011Read More
“Breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer. Infants exclusively breastfeeding for 4 months are less likely to develop asthma than those not breastfed or breastfed for shorter durations. And there…
August 16, 2011Read More
The Israeli cabinet has voted to legalise the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. Commenting on the development, Professor Wayne Hall from the University of Queensland, explained that the preparation…
August 8, 2011Read More
Shlomi Sendak is Head of the Israeli Medical Cannabis Clinic and he spoke to The Global Herald about the legalisation of cannabis for medical uses by the Israeli cabinet on…
August 8, 2011Read More
Israel legalised medicinal cannabis in a cabinet meeting on Sunday 7th August 2011. The move was designed to recognise that “medical use of cannabis is necessary in certain cases”. The Israeli…
August 7, 2011Read More
Anne Tamar-Mattis is the founder and executive director of Advocates for Informed Choice which provides legal advocacy for the rights of children with intersex conditions or DSDs (differences of sex…
July 22, 2011Read More