The 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been announced on Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. It has been awarded to three scientists from the United States for their work about the cells’ molecular transport mechanism in the body’s physiology.
James E. Rothman, Randy W. Shekman and Thomas C. Sudhof worked individually during the 1970s and 1980s to clarify different aspects of this very important engine of the life support.

The Swedish Society of Medicine, the Swedish Society of Health Professionals, the Swedish Association of Pediatric Surgeons and the Swedish Pediatric Society adopted a common attitude against circumcision, in a debate article published Saturday in the Dagens Nyheter.

The most important actual medical news is related to diabetes type-1 treatment without insulin. Scientists were capable to identify almost three ways to make a patient’s live a little easier.
First, with the transplant of a few pancreatic cells from a donor, using a special technique to avoid the irritation and inflation of the pancreas, researchers were capable to make type-1 diabetes patients able to naturally regulate their insulin level. These advanced experiments were conducted at the University of Pennsylvania.