Six plaintiffs are asking Costa Rica's Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court to throw out a constitutionality challenge to an executive decree that would legalize in vitro fertilization in Costa Rica.
A legislative commission has approved two draft bills to fight the sexualization of minors and expand benefits to parents of children with severe health conditions.
Costa Rica’s legislature is debating a bill that would give terminally ill patients the right to refuse treatment, which supporters say will guarantee their right to a “dignified death.”
Experts from Costa Rica's National University found people infected with Chagas' disease, which is spread by kissing bugs or "chinches," in the communities of San José, Alajuela, Heredia and Guanacaste.
In 2001, just 4.1 percent of adults said they used marijuana. That increased to 9.5 percent by 2013. The findings were published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.
Shkreli's compromise may alleviate the concerns of humanitarians - but punk rock has a longer memory. Collect was founded by Geoff Rickly of the iconic band Thursday, who is known for his leftist politics - and now, his regret for Shkreli's involvement with his label.
Why isn’t worm composting as trendy as biochar? Perhaps it’s a deep, cultural taboo we have against these little creatures, which prevents us from perceiving their true value in our web of life on planet earth.
"Honey is thought of as more natural whereas white sugar and high fructose corn syrup are processed from the cane or the beet or the corn," said Raatz, whose paper appears in the Journal of Nutrition. "We wanted to find out if they were different. But chemically, they are very, very similar, and that's what it seems to break down to."
