FIRST, DO NO HARM
Bungled car bombs in London and Glasgow on the weekend may have been organised by doctors. "We have to face the possibility that the health...
FIVE-YEAR-OLD’S EGGS FROZEN AS FERTILITY INSURANCE
Israeli doctors have successfully frozen eggs from cancer-stricken girls as young as five in order to allow them to become mothers in later life. Dr...
HASTY DECISIONS IN ARIZONA COMA CASE
Eighteen days after his wife instructed doctors to withdraw food and water, an Arizona man has awakened from a coma. Jesse Ramirez Jr, 36, had...
VIVE LA 1% DIFF?RENCE?
The fact that there is only a about a 1% difference between the genetic make-up of chimpanzees and human has been called "the most overly...
IS PAIN MANAGEMENT A HUMAN RIGHT?
An Australian palliative care specialist has called upon the United Nations to declare an International Year of Pain Management. Writing in the journal Anesthesia &...
DRUG COMPANIES UNDER ATTACK FOR PERKS
Pharmaceutical companies are reeling from criticism in the US and Australia over claims that industry-funded medical education programs are "infomercials" which gloss over the weak...
WHAT’S LIFE ALL ABOUT?
Excitement about so-called "synthetic life" is growing as scientists reflect more on the implications of experiments which are aimed at creating artificial cells. A group...
CAESAREANS RISING IN US
Caesarean section births are rising and rising in the United States -- and no one knows exactly why. In the 1940s, Caesareans were rare, but...
IN BRIEF: nurse murders; Nigeria; HFEA
Nurse murders: A Berlin nurse has been convicted of murdering five patients at a top hospital with drug overdoses. Irene Becker, 54, was sentenced to...