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A year ago, Switzerland legalised a fancy new way for people to kill themselves that is likely to appeal to young people – a space-age “coffin-like capsule with windows” designed so that the decedent-to-be can push a button, flood the interior with nitrogen and die within 10 minutes. In 2017,...

The growing worldwide trend of euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, especially among children and young people, has critics asking troubling questions about the real motivation behind a spate of new laws. In a recent CHD.TV talk-show Good Morning CHD, three Canadian doctors – Dr Charles Hoffe and Dr Stephen Malthouse and...

Suspects arrested by Ugandan military for cattle rustling are routinely held in prisons or army barracks. In Kotido district in northern Uganda four former detainees described the harrowing experience they had been subjected to, which included tortured in military custody. When the arrests happen, the first to be released were...

e than 300 men sat in a sunbaked sports field here in Moroto – shoeless, shirtless and surrounded by soldiers. Some were builders from a construction site, others staff from a tourist hotel. Ten were community health workers who had come to town for a training session with an international...

Consider replacing the sugar you consume with honey, says a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto. For people on a healthy diet in which no more than 10 per cent of daily calories come from sugar, honey actually provides cardiometabolic benefits. The study is a review and...

Anecdotally, Black scholars in United Kingdom universities told UK Royal Society researchers that they were the only Black people in their department or institution and sometimes in their field. Kevin Lala, an evolutionary biologist at the University of St Andrew’s, UK, says that those who are members of under-represented groups...

Science is often portrayed as a meritocracy in which one’s ideas and abilities matter more than anything else. But Nature’s 2022 survey of PhD and master’s students points to an unpleasant reality: those who identify as members of minority ethnic groups face a greater share of discrimination and indignities than...

In Narsinghpatana, India, a village in the Puri district of Odisha, Bijoy and fellow Dalit families managed to enter the cyclone relief shelter after they were stopped by neighbours from the dominant caste. They “allowed us to enter the shelter on the condition that we would stay in a specific...