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Brain-dead man wakes up as doctors harvest organs

22 October 2024 14:31 An unseen medical miracle reaches us from the US state of Kentucky. An American man who had been declared brain dead after a cardiac arrest woke up there at the very moment surgeons were harvesting his organs.

Deadly new Mpox variant lands in Germany

22 October 2024 14:00 An infection with the new 1b strain of mpox was detected in Germany on Oct. 18. So reports the authoritative German Robert Koch Institute. This is the first infection in Germany with this new, deadly variant of mpox. The German institute emphasizes that “the risk to public health in Germany is weak.”

Belgian doctors are not “hit men”

21 October 2024 16:30 The Belgian Order of Physicians expressed its outrage at the remarks made by Pope Francis during his visit to Belgium at the end of September, and specifically on the plane taking him back to Rome. The reaction was slow, but it was scathing.