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Do you remember dark eyes of people when someone coughed or the crowd to buy hand sanitizer (now also in the handbag size), or (in Italy) Gigio Mouse, which listed the five rules for swine flu with only four fingers: no fear, we are at the end of January and the peak of deaths was not there. Indeed, the case of swine flu was "one of the greatest health scandal of the century".

The law 40 on fertility treatment approved in 2004 amid a thousand controversies has increased the number of couples who have to migrate to conceive a child, but now it had a new interpretation by a judge of the court of Salerno.  It's not the first time that the stakes of this law have been changed by the courts, because already the Constititional Court had declared this law partially illegal.

The earthquake that struck Haiti has been particularly disastrous for its high intensity, 7.3 on the Richter scale, and especially because the epicenter was a few kilometers from the capital Port au Prince, whose center and suburbs have nearly 4 million inhabitants. If the dead will be, as is feared, more than 100,000 the earthquake could be one of the most destructive in the history of our planet.

It's a disease which is discussed less and less but it's still here: according to UNAIDS in the world there are 33.2 million people living with HIV, of these 2.5 million are children. Half of the infected are under 25 years and they die before 35. Today, all over the world, we celebrate World Day against AIDS with the aim to raise awareness against this virus and increase prevention education.

Albert Einstein fu forse la mente più splendida del XX secolo. Certo, fu un grandissimo scienziato, fu colui che, nel giro di un mese, produsse quattro articoli che sconvolsero e cambiarono per sempre il mondo della fisica. Einstein fu, sin da ragazzino, un ribelle. All'età di diciotto anni, aiutato dal padre, rinunciò alla cittadinanza tedesca, in quanto non voleva assolutamente prestare il servizio di leva. La sua non era affatto codardia, semmai era la manifestazione di un tratto caratteriale che lo porterai poi ad eccellere nel mondo della scienza, e non solo: il rifiuto per l'autorità, per il dogma, per il conformismo.

For the first time in medicine history, researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine were able to obtain germ cells (the reproductive founders of oocytes and sperm cells) from human embryonic cells.