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Solar plane lands in New York City

A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.  The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website.  Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
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Doctors in Switzerland separated eight-day-old conjoined sisters, believed to be the youngest babies to be successfully parted

The twins, born in December, were fused at the liver and chest.  Swiss media say doctors had originally planned to separate them when they were several months old but brought the operation forward when they each suffered a life-threatening condition.  The operation reportedly carried a 1% chance of success.  The twins, named Lydia and Maya, were born eight weeks premature at the Inselspital hospital in Bern, along with a triplet who was fully separate and healthy. The hospital said the twins were "extensively conjoined on the liver, but had all vital organs". They weighed just 2.2kg (4lb 14oz) together. One of the twins had too much blood, and very high blood pressure, while the other one did not have enough.  A 13-strong medical team took five hours to separate the girls on 10 December.  "Such small conjoined siblings had never been successfully separated before," the hospital said.The head of paediatric surgery, Steffen Berger, paid tribute to th...
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CCTV footage emerged of a Russian hospital doctor punching a patient who collapsed and later died

The incident took place in the city of Belgorod, 670km (440 miles) south of the capital, Moscow, on 29 December.  The patient had earlier kicked a nurse, after which the doctor punched him in the head, Russian media reported.  Investigators think it was a case of "involuntary manslaughter", one official told Russian TV, but have launched a criminal case.  The story went viral after the CCTV footage came to light. Yelena Kozyreva from the local investigations committee said they believed there was no malicious intent in the doctor's actions.  Relatives identified the patient as Yevgeniy Bakhtin, 56, a resident of Belgorod,LifeNews TV reported.  The doctor has been named as Ilya Zelendinov, according to the privately owned channel Ren TV.
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First time doctors breached the human brain's protective layer to deliver cancer-fighting drugs

The Canadian team used tiny gas-filled bubbles, injected into the bloodstream of a patient, to punch temporary holes in the blood-brain barrier.  A beam of focused ultrasound waves applied to the skull made the bubbles vibrate and push their way through, along with chemotherapy drugs.  Six to 10 more patients will undergo the same procedure as part of a trial.  Experts said the experimental technique used at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre was exciting because it meant doctors might be able to give cancer patients potent drugs that otherwise would not work. The same non-invasive method could also be used for other brain diseases, such as dementia and Parkinson's.  But many more safety studies are needed, they say. Animal trials have produced some results, but it is not yet clear whether the treatment would work or have side-effects. Blood-brain barrier The blood-brain barrier keeps pathogens and toxins away from the  central nervous system...
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