Medicine

Macedonia's Constitutional Court has rejected a challenge to the changed law on terminations, adopted in September 2013, saying the changes do not prohibit abortion but only regulate the procedures.
 
Several NGOs had submitted complaints to the Constitutional Court, arguing that the new requirements put undue physical, administrative and time-related pressure on pregnant women.

The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the US died despite intense but delayed treatment, and the government announced it was expanding airport examinations to guard against the spread of the disease

Screening the news on Turkey, both domestic and foreign; one would get the impression that the country is in real trouble

Police in Athens on Wednesday arrested three suspected members of a large drug-dealing racket after confiscating 222 kilograms of cannabis from their homes.

According to sources, the racket had set up a bogus firm – a Piraeus-based commercial company – as a front for their illicit operations and procured winning lottery tickets to launder their gains.

A Turkish worker employed in Nigeria has been rushed to an Istanbul hospital with the suspicion of Ebola, after showing signs of a high fever and diarrhea

A Spanish nurse has contracted Ebola after treating two patients who died from the disease at a Madrid hospital in the first known case of transmission outside of Africa

Specialist Who Performed Surgery on Richard Norris: Peeling off his Face was the Hardest Part

"This was the most difficult surgery in my life. A situation, when you don't have time to think", says the Serb Branko Bojović (38), member of the world-renowned medical team, who has performed the full face transplant on the American Richard Lee Norris (39)

More than 8,200 people with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities in Croatia are being kept in segregated institutions and psychiatric hospitals with little control over decisions that affect their lives, international campaign group Human Rights Watch said in the new report published on Monday.

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A voter in Bulgaria's south western town of Sandanski cast an invalid ballot with a condom attached to it, reports the Sandanski21.com website.

Below the condom the voter wrote "Do not breed ANY MORE".

The comments below the photo, published on the facebook page of the site, vary from sincere admiration for the idea to sad resignation and admonitions.

A Swedish woman has become the world's first to give birth after having a womb transplant, opening up the possibility for thousands of infertile women to have babies, the doctor in charge of the research project said on Saturday.