SINGAPORE – Organ donation is legally enforced in Singapore to help boost donation rates and save more lives, unless the Singapore citizen or resident chooses to opt out. Despite this, more than 400 ...

Luo Chen Jun, 36, inspired by helping children with cancer and his father's brain tumour, wants to donate his body and brain to science, to help future doctors. Singapore has different donation ...

Former civil servant Luo Chen Jun suggests having a single national registry linking organ, body, and brain donations. SINGAPORE – “When I die, I want my body to keep giving.” That was how 36-year-old ...

Pig-to-human kidney transplants. A blood test for Alzheimer’s. Birth control without a prescription. These were just a few of the advancements in health and medicine in 2024. An illustration showing ...

These figures show the average size and number of peer-adjudicated research grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research ...

A few weeks ago, a medical researcher reported a rather curious case of AI-induced medical flub, detailing the case of an individual who consulted ChatGPT and went into a psychotic spiral due to ...

A council of five AI models working together, discussing their answers through an iterative process, achieved 97%, 93%, and 94% accuracy on 325 medical exam questions spanning the three stages of the ...

Ashok Majumdar, an 84-year-old from Gwalior, pledged his body to Gajra Raja Medical College. He got a tattoo on his back to ensure his wish is honored. The college felicitated Majumdar in a grand ...

Mr. Schulman is the editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society. He has written extensively about science reform. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of ...