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Nuremberg, 1947In the 1930s, German medicine and German healthcare institutions were widely considered the most advanced in the world. However, subtle but enormously consequential shifts had been underway decades before Hitler came to power, starting with the rise of the eugenics movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1922, Alfred Hoche and Karl Binding, a psychiatrist and a lawyer, published an influential book, Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life. A metaphor from this and other influential works captured the imagination of the German medical establishment, undermining the traditional Hippocratic ethic that had governed medicine since...

Dr. Anthony Fauci told graduating college students on Sunday that the pandemic brought out deep-rooted divisions in society. “Societal divisiveness is counterproductive in a pandemic,” Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, said in a video commencement speech to Emory University students. “We must not be at odds with each other since the virus is the enemy, not each other.” Fauci, who was awarded the president’s medal from the university, urged the graduates to incorporate public service into their lives even if it is not part of their full-time careers.

Doctors have implanted elctrodes in Chris Reeve's diaphragm in an experimetn designed to enable the (partially) paralyzed actor to breathe on his own, hospital officials said Thursday.Reeve and Drs. Raymond Onders and Anthony DiMarco planned to talk about the procedure later Thursday at University Hospitals, hospital spokesman Eric Sandstrom said.The results of the operation are promising, Onders told the New York Times.The newspaper said Onder performed the surgery at University Hospital of Cleveland.Nursing supervisor Nancy Funk would not confirm early Thursday that Reeve had recieved treatment at the hospital.