'There is no cure for who you are'. This is how a psychiatrist sums up how far we've come in recent years with regard to gender dysphoria, i.e. the permanent identification with the other gender and ...

Ancestral healing therapies resist all scientific progress and healers are overwhelmed by patients requests. By helping us mobilize our self-healing abilities, healers sometimes seem to work ...

How can we combat the sedentary lifestyle that is slowly killing our society? Sitting still for too long is now a major public health issue. Nearly 70% of the population is reportedly weakened by ...

Born on the edge of the Amazon, ayahuasca is the new buzzword. Horribly bitter, emetic and purgative, this plant decoction associated with shamanism is more and more popular under northern latitudes. ...

Thanks to social egg freezing, or oocyte cryopreservation, women can now delay motherhood. I'll have a baby if, with whom and when I want to!” could become the rallying call of an entire generation ...

Viruses are increasingly being blamed as the triggers of autoimmune diseases in people with genetic predispositions. For example, multiple sclerosis appears to be a rare complication of infection by ...

Does voluntourism do more harm than good? Teaching English in Nepal, counting elephants in Botswana; paid volunteer missions abroad are very popular with young people. Many of them, full of ...

This report looks at the green gold rush of legal cannabis, or CBD. Since becoming freely available in Switzerland, the medicinal virtues of CBD – anti-inflammatory, painkiller, stress reliever – ...

Cancer, epilepsy, diabetes: these devastating diseases are mobilizing medical staff around the globe. Today, some researchers are getting help from unusual collaborators: animals. Thanks to their ...

Can you be a man without getting an erection? Whether caused by anxiety or a medical reason, erectile dysfunction affects many men, including youth. Because of shame or fear of disappointing others, ...