By Caroline Song
A 59-year-old woman in the United Kingdom is making history: she is looking for a sperm donor to fertilize her deceased daughter’s eggs so that she can gestate her own grandchild.
Her daughter, known only as Ms. A, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2005, and succumbed to the disease in 2011 at the age of 28. After receiving her diagnosis, Ms. A decided to have some of her …

By Kaitlyn Schaeffer
Many of the organ trafficking stories swirling around the web focus on supply; not much has been paid to demand.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) recently admonished the wealthy Europeans who have traveled to countries such as China, India, and Egypt in search of illegal organs. These MEPs say that Europeans who engage in such acts facilitate the organ trade, an illegal practice that involves many human rights …

By Richard Balagtas
“If you’re holding the ‘infected’ print edition in your hands right now, you’ll get into contact with HIV like never before…It will make you reflect on HIV and you will think differently afterward. Because now the issue is in your hands.” – Vangardist publisher and CEO, Julian Wiehl
If you were asked what exactly HIV was, would you know the answer? If you were asked how relevant HIV research …