Research is now focusing on the microbiota to help treat depression, anxiety disorders or hyperactivity. In case of a porous abdominal wall, microbiota’s billions of micro-organisms are suspected ...

When one learns, often in adulthood, that one was born by sperm donation in medically assisted procreation, the news falls like a bombshell. Thousands of people learn that their father is not who ...

Despite more than a century of feminism and the Me Too movement, machismo is making a comeback among young people. A major study by the University of Zurich reveals that teens today are much more ...

Prenatal screening for Trisomy 21 is a technological advance that also presents parents with an extremely difficult ethical decision: should the pregnancy be terminated? Nine out of ten couples opt ...

As if coming close to death through a NDE wasn't enough, some NDE experiencers come back to life with what they describe as extraordinary abilities. In addition to their disturbing stories, the ...

Breathing is the most necessary act of life. Yet pollution and climate change threaten this basic right for all. As temperatures rise, pollinations that used to occur only in spring are now also ...

For many decades, Sri Lanka and Lebanon's stolen babies flooded the adoption market to fill the heart of European would-be parents with happiness. For these children, now adult themselves, seeking ...

When a crime is committed, the spotlight is always on the victim and his or her family. But what aboutthe perpetrator's relatives? Their lives will never be the same again either. Dominique Moulinas ...

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 – ...

5 x 45' - The pediatric ward at Lausanne University Hospital treats everything from minor ailments to serious chronic illnesses. Medical teams and families work together to offer hope and comfort ...