Clinical medicine

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The Argentine Senate has followed the example of the Chamber of Deputies and has officially signed into law the project that legalizes the use of medical marijuana in the country.

The process began in mid-2015 when nearly 150 Argentine families petitioned Congress to hear their pleas for the legalization of medicinal marijuana.

They were heady, historic days in the sporting history of Iceland.

A small Nordic nation of 300,000 people toppling World Cup winners and footballing lawmakers England in a major tournament doesn’t happen every week. Not yet, at least.

Cancer patients in Bosnia are enduring long waits for essential medications as public procurement stalls and as the worldwide supply of the older drugs used by Bosnian health services begins to drop, according to local experts.

Hospitals in Ankara have refused to admit an HIV-infected pregnant girl with mental disabilities to give birth because she had the "risk of carrying contagious virus." 

The girl, whose name remains hidden, was left abandoned after wanting to give birth, but was rejected by a number of hospitals, daily Habertürk reported on March 13. 

Researchers are developing a blood test that can tell not only whether someone has cancer, but in what organ the tumors are lurking. The test could mean more prompt, potentially life-saving treatment for patients.

Last year, Dr. Sergio Canavero created quite the ruckus (to put it mildly) when he vowed to be the first person to transplant a human head onto a deceased donor’s body. Yes, he is planning on attempting the world’s first human head transplant (or body transplant, depending on how you look at it).

A group of Turkish doctors is set to establish a live donor transplant unit at a well-known Israeli hospital in Jerusalem, according to an Israeli doctor. 

A court in Istanbul has ruled Istanbul University to pay compensation to a girl whose mother died after she received wrong blood transfusion during a caesarean section surgery at the university's Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty Hospital in 2013. 

Testosterone is often referred to as the “male sex hormone” because although women have a small amount of testosterone in their bodies, men’s levels are far greater. Its primary function is to ignite the male sex drive and to produce sperm.

Greek coroners are advising those driving during the holidays to abstain from alcohol altogether. Ahead of the New Year's celebrations, the Hellenic Society of Forensic Medicine noted that local morgues are always filled with the bodies of young people at this time of year.