Split liver transplantation (SLT) provides an opportunity to divide a donor liver and offer transplants to two small patients, one
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How US children and teens die: Study reveals the widespread and persistent role of firearms: The No. 2 cause of death hasn’t changed much in 17 years, while prevention efforts cut the death rate from No. 1 cause — motor vehicle accidents — in half
America lost 20,360 children and teens in 2016 — 60 percent of them to preventable injuries, a new study shows.
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Shorter life expectancy linked to 2016 presidential election outcome: Biggest Republican gains were in counties with shorter life expectancies and greater increases in deaths from drugs, alcohol, and suicide
Concerns about health and rising death rates may have helped tilt the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald J.
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The god of small things
New research suggests people who are religious gain happiness from believing there is a deeper meaning to everyday events. Dr
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Faulty science and ethics cited in DNA analyzes of Atacama mummy
University of Otago-led international collaborative research calls into question the ethics and skeletal and genomic analysis surrounding research into the
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Religious involvement deters recreational and medical marijuana use, researchers find
Although marijuana use for medical and recreational purposes is at an all-time high in the United States, a team of
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Older men with higher levels of sex hormones could be less religious, study suggests: Amount of testosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in a man’s body may influence how religious he is
The level of sex hormones such as testosterone in a man’s body could influence his religiosity. A new study by
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People make different moral choices in imagined versus real-life situations
Researchers often use hypothetical scenarios to understand how people grapple with moral quandaries, but experimental results suggest that these scenarios
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Women should have right to reject pregnancy, experts say: Laws should not force women to risk death and injury by having a baby, according to a legal academic in Australia who has says abortion can be decriminalised without society and governments making a moral judgement.
Laws should not force women to risk death and injury by having a baby, according to a QUT legal academic
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Feelings of ethical superiority can lead to workplace ostracism, social undermining: Managers should consider ethics and performance when rewarding employees, Baylor professor says
Do you consider yourself more ethical than your coworker? Caution! Your feelings of ethical superiority can cause a chain reaction
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