TURF WARS IN COSMETIC SURGERY
A turf war is building up in the US over the lucrative field of cosmetic surgery. Lured by a better lifestyle and higher pay for...
SPANISH WOMAN ASKS FOR EUTHANASIA
A 51-year-old woman with advanced muscular dystrophy is trying to get the Spanish government to legalise euthanasia. Inmaculada Echevarria has been in a hospital bed...
IN BRIEF: animal rights; sperm donors
Buoyed up by the news that a Dutch animal rights party won two seats in parliament last month, activists in the UK have launched a...
BRITISH DOCTORS TO BE FORCED TO HONOUR LIVING WILLS
British doctors have been told that they risk jail or lawsuits for damages if they fail to allow patients who have made living wills to...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH SEX SELECTION, ASKS IVF PIONEER
The UK's most prominent IVF researcher, Lord Robert Winston, has taken a strong stand as a supporter of social sex selection. Writing in the London...
SILICON IMPLANTS RETURN IN US
After a 14-year moratorium, US cosmetic surgeons may now use silicon breast implants. In 1992, the Food and Drug Administration imposed a moratorium on their...
SINGER SUPPORTS ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
Peter Singer has blindsided his many critics by backing some medical experimentation on animals. In a BBC documentary on the controversial issue, he says: "It...
DRUG COMPANIES HIDE ADVERSE RESULTS,
SAYS HARVARD PROFESSOR
In a stinging article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a Harvard Medical School professor has accused big drug companies of hiding evidence of...
CHILDREN OF YOUNG MOTHERS LIVE LONGER
If you want to live to be 100, make sure that your mother is under 25. That's what scientists at the University of Chicago say...
MIDDLE AGE IS UPWARDLY MOBILE
Cosmetic surgery has been given a big boost by consumers who think that their 60s are the new middle age, according to an A.C. Nielsen...
ARE IVF CLINICS CREATING TRANSGENIC HUMANS?
An Italian researcher has discovered that IVF clinics could unwittingly be creating transgenic humans. Dr Corrado Spadafora, of Italy's National Institute of Health, recently told...
IN BRIEF: Hwang; animal thinktank; kidneys; Lanza
Hwang: Disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk wants to resume his work on therapeutic cloning. According to his lawyer, creating patient-specific stem cells...