Colombia’s 1st legal, regulated euthanasia suspended at last minute
Colombia’s first legal and regulated euthanasia procedure was cancelled just minutes before implementation, local media reported on Tuesday.
Colombia’s first legal and regulated euthanasia procedure was cancelled just minutes before implementation, local media reported on Tuesday.
Four women have died from complications resulting from plastic surgeries in Cali in the course of 2015, bringing attention to the dangers of a rapidly growing industry in Colombia.
At least 294 children have died from malnutrition in the La Guajira province on Colombia’s Caribbean coast over the past eight years, President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed Monday.
Mosquitoes treated with a special bacteria have been released into Medellin to stop the spread of dengue fever, local media reported Thursday.
Colombia’s Prosecutor General has joined a growing number of top officials who believe fumigating illicit crop fields with glyphosate should be suspended immediately because of potential health risks.
The number of Chikungunya cases in Colombia has multiplied by 14 times in five months. The virus has infected more than 200,000 people, according to the national health institute INS.
Colombians’ life expectancy has been reduced by at least two years as a result of the country’s armed conflict and violence related to drug trafficking, said the National Health Observatory (ONS)…
Colombia soccer star Radamel Falcao Garcia became even more of a national hero after securing a successful heart transplant surgery on a 17-year old boy from the north of the country.
Authorities in the north of Colombia have reported a dramatic rise in cases of the dangerous Chikungunya virus in the past days.