Medicine

The Mexican Senate approved a reform of the health system, according to which any deceased adult automatically becomes a potential donor. "The decision on the reform of the general health care law in its organ donation section was adopted by 75 votes in favor, with no one against and one abstaining," the senate said in a Twitter statement.

An Albanian man who was previously caught in Turkey, accused of smuggling over one ton of synthetic cannabis, was handed to the judiciary along with 10 other suspects on the morning of April 2, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

They include the dome of the National Assembly, the Ada Bridge, and the Palace Albania building.

The new fountain in Slavija Square will also light up blue, said Mayor Sinisa Mali.

A police investigation has shed light into a clash between drug and arms dealers and anarchists in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, Kathimerini has learned. 

Meanwhile 29 Greek and Albanian nationals are to face charges in the wake of a major police crackdown in the area. 

Actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger underwent an emergency cardiac surgery in Los Angeles, TASS reported.

Doctors were planning to change the catheter valve of 70-year-old Schwarzenegger, but complications have occurred. According to TMZ, doctors have estimated that Arnold should be immediately operated. Surgery has lasted for several hours.

If the anti-vaccination trend gains pace, this may produce serious consequences, including an epidemic, warns Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ceyhan, a member of the immunization advisory board of the Health Ministry.

The government announced that this happened after the measures taken by it and the Ministry of Health in the period from October last year to date, so that the immunization of children aged 12 months to 14 years reached 94.3 percent.

Doctor Vicentiu Saceleanu, the chief of the Neurosurgery Section of the County Emergency Clinical Hospital (SCJU) in Sibiu, was awarded again at the PRO INVENT International Research, Innovation and Inventions Salon in Cluj-Napoca, for discovering a new osteosynthesis material, designed for patients who need repair of cranium defects, according to a press release sent to AGERPRES on Tuesday.

As Yemen enters its third year of civil war, civilians are facing the prospect of another deadly outbreak of cholera, the UN children's fund has warned.

Turkey's Health Ministry has been planning to give Turkish hospitals authority to take up new traditional and complementary medicine practices, including blood-letting, in order to reduce medicine costs, minimize the addiction to chemical medication and fight against illegal activities done with the use of traditional medicines.