Colombia to ban cosmetic plastic surgery for minors
Colombia’s Congress is about to pass a law that will prohibit controversial cosmetic plastic surgery for minors, who in some cases receive risky breast or buttock implants as young as 15.
Colombia’s Congress is about to pass a law that will prohibit controversial cosmetic plastic surgery for minors, who in some cases receive risky breast or buttock implants as young as 15.
Police have found the body of the fiscal auditor of Colombia’s largest health intermediary stabbed to death in his bathtub, authorities said Tuesday.
Colombia, seen as a key test case for the impacts of a Zika outbreak, is reconsidering its own forecast of babies likely to be born with a rare birth defect…
Indigenous and black communities in the west of Colombia filed a lawsuit, claiming 37 of their children had died after drinking water contaminated with mercury by nearby mining operations.
More than 2,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country’s national health institute said on Saturday, as the disease continued its spread across the Americas.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos signed a decree on Tuesday legalizing the growing and sale of marijuana for medical purposes, a dramatic shift in a country long identified with US-backed…
An overwhelming 300 women and girls from the central Colombian city of Bucaramanga donated their hair for cancer patients, an initiative supported by soccer star Radamel Falcao.
Dr. Gustavo Quintana walks out of a modest, two-floor apartment building in southern Bogota. Inside his black doctor’s bag are vials containing anesthesia and muscle relaxants, a syringe and a…
Colombia’s Health Minister on Wednesday called for doctors to continue with euthanasia procedures after a controversial last minute suspension of the country’s first ever procedure last week.