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South Sudan Eye Surgery Outreach
Doctors For Life arranged an eye surgery outreach in a remote region near the border of South Sudan and Sudan in January 2022. The team included two volunteer ophthalmologists, Dr Carl-Heinz Kruse and Dr Brian Church. Approximately 700 patients were screened with a total of 135 operations. Most of these surgeries were done on people … Read more
High Court to hear Dr De Vos Application against HPCSA
Media Release Embargo: Immediate release Enquiries: Doctors For Life Int. Date: 01 February 2022 Telephone: 032 481 5550 The Review Application of Dr De Vos against the Health Professions Council of South Africa is to heard on 1 February 2022 in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria. Dr De Vos is asking the High Court … Read more
LIFEalerts – IVF & Surrogacy
IVF & Surrogacy USA – Children born through IVF can now be US citizens U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that a non-genetic, non-gestational legal parent of a child born through assisted reproductive technology (ART) outside of the United States may transmit U.S. citizenship to the child under certain circumstances. This is the latest … Read more
LIFEalerts – Substance Abuse
Substance Abuse USA – New study: when teens use pot, drug addiction more likely to follow. A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics shows Teens who try marijuana or other drugs are at greater risk of developing a drug addiction than those who wait a few years before experimenting with drugs. Co-lead author Dr Nora … Read more
LIFEalerts – Pornography
Pornography UK – No age checks is a dangerous weapon lying around Members of Parliament are calling for tougher checks to protect children from the damaging effects of online pornography and a more robust approach to safeguarding children from harmful material on websites and social media platforms. Their concern is that incidents of self-harm and … Read more
LIFEalerts – Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine Northern Ireland – Ivermectin: seizures of unproven horse drug used for Covid Thousands of tablets of a horse deworming drug promoted as an alternative Covid-19 treatment despite being unproven have been seized coming into Northern Ireland by the Medicines Regulatory Group (MRG). The MRG is part of the Department of Health. “There is … Read more
LIFEalerts – Paedophilia
Paedophilia Russian father who killed ‘paedophile’ friend should not face murder charge, say locals A father detained for ‘killing a paedophile’ who ‘raped’ his daughter aged just eight years old should not face a murder charge, insist Russians in a groundswell of support. Alleged child sex attacker Oleg Sviridov, 32, kept mobile phone videos of … Read more
LIFEalerts – Euthanasia
Euthanasia Australia – Fatally Flawed Experiments in 21 countries with euthanasia A booklet of 100 pages titled: “Fatally flawed Experiments in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia” documents the failure of euthanasia laws in 21 countries/states around the world. Euthanasia laws, once legalised, quickly moved goal posts that went from unbearable suffering to include depression, mental illness, … Read more
LIFEalerts – LGBTQ+ Issues
LGBTQ+ Issues Poland – Regional Council votes to remain LGBT-free zone The Polish regional council has recently voted to remain a zone, which bans the promotion of homosexuality and other minority sexual identities, especially in schools. Poland’s conservative communities said it’s not that they have anything against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, … Read more