Our positive note for the day: Recent research has shown that brain cell transplants to patients with Parkinson’s disease can survive for a decade or more. This research shows that there is hope for slowing or delaying the progression of Parkinson’s disease. This is a major leap forward in the research of this detrimental disease [...]

The American Heart Association has recently changed its guidelines for resuscitation following this year’s research. The new guidelines come two years before a scheduled revision by the American Heart Association and state that “hand only” resuscitation can be just as effective as traditional mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The hand only resuscitation method uses 100 compressions to the [...]

Announced via the Associated Press today was a statement by Monsignor Vittorio Formenti from the Vatican. “For the first time in history,” Monsignor Formenti begins, “we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us”. Monsignor Formenti is talking about the global religion percentages. Catholicism has been the front-runner in religious denominations for years. [...]