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 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 ...

What if male gynaecologists were becoming a thing of the past? The question may come as a surprise, but the statistics are crystal clear: only a handful of young male doctors are still choosing to ...

Gestational surrogacy allows LGBT couples to become parents. Only a few couples are willing to set out and go on the adventure. The phenomenon is statistically marginal. It remains nonetheless ...

We explore one of Lausanne’s working-class neighbourhoods that has been invaded by drug dealers. A family-friendly multicultural neighbourhood where life was good until petty sellers of marijuana ...

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. ...

The therapeutic interventions of Vincent Humbert's case, in France, has left its mark and highlighted the importance of advance directives. This signed document can be unsettling as it details what ...

Investigation into a generation destined for poverty: apprentices. In Switzerland, the CFC diploma, which certifies the completion of professional apprenticeship training, typically opens doors to a ...

What if there was an afterlife? What if the disturbing accounts of patients who have had a near death experience were more serious than the skeptics think? Since the 1970s, faced with countless ...