15-05-31 New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Berlin, Germany, suggests that, before an operation, low blood pressure (hypotension) rather than high blood pressure (hypertension) is an independent risk factor for death. The study...

15-05-22 Lung cancer researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have discovered a novel strategy to exploit apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, for the treatment of lung cancer. The protein Bcl-2 is a known target for cancer treatmen...

15-04-15 A defending attorney was cross examining a coroner. The attorney asks, Before you signed the death certificate had you taken the man's pulse? The coroner says, No. The attorney then asks, Did you listen for a heart beat? No. So when you signed the d...

15-04-08 The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress is considering reducing by nine the number of crimes subject to the death penalty through revising the Criminal Law. 全国人大常委会拟通过《刑法》修正案减少九个适用死刑的罪名。 Crimes subject t...

15-04-04 First there was a website that predicted when your parents would die; now there's a watch that not only predicts when you will die, it also begins counting down. 先是出现了一个能预测你双亲何时去世的网站；现在有一种手表，不仅能预测你将何时去世，而且...

15-03-25 France is one step closer to legalizing euthanasia after approving a bill that allows doctors to sedate terminally ill patients until they die. 法国下议院日前通过了一项提案，允许医生给身患绝症、无法治愈的病人注射镇静剂直至其死亡。这意味着法国离安乐...

14-12-08 Don't do that, Scout. Set him out on the back steps. Jem, are you crazy? I said set him out on the back steps. Sighing, I scooped up the small creature, placed him on the bottom step and wentback to my cot. September had come, but not a trace of coo...

14-10-31 Death penalty is usually imposed because of some type of gross misconduct. 死刑经常只对某类别的严重犯罪惩处。 A sentencing judge is required to consider any mitigating circumstances before imposing the death penalty. 在处死刑之前，要求量刑法官必须考...

14-10-28 A man once caught a weasel, which was always sneaking about the house, and was just going to drown it in a tub of water, when it begged hard for its life, and said to him, Surely you haven't the heart to put me to death? Think how useful I have been...

14-10-27 Aaron Ramsey's Celebrity Death Goal Curse refers to a series of coincidences linked to League team Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey that when Ramsey scores a goal, someone famous dies. 拉姆塞定律指的是与英超球员阿隆拉姆塞相关的一系列巧合，即只要这位阿森纳队优...