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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 A male nurse has been convicted of killing 28 patients -- making him Germany's worst serial killer since World War II. Stephan Letter, 28, injected...

 The Dutch Party for the Animals could win one or even two seats in tomorrow's national election. "We see this as a follow-up to liberating...

 Rejecting a call from British O&G doctors to consider legalising infant euthanasia, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has recommended that active killing of newborn babies...

Adult stem cells have helped ease the symptoms of muscular dystrophy in golden retrievers, according to a report in the journal Nature. The study focused...

Frozen embryos do not have a right to life under the Irish constitution, the Irish High Court has ruled. This was the outcome of a...