Too much choice can be a nightmare for patients, according to a feature in the New York Times. "Many find the job of being a...

Cosmetic surgery is becoming more and more popular amongst both women and men. But few take it to the extremes that Dennis Avner does. Better...

A British cosmetic surgery clinic is offering loyalty card discounts to repeat customers. Anyone who has four consecutive procedures is entitled to ?200 cash back...

Skin taken from an aborted child has been used by Swiss doctors to create grafts for paediatric burns. In an article in The Lancet, researchers...

Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Milan have created the world's first pure nerve stem cells from embryonic stem cells. "This is incredibly exciting...

Chlamydia: British fertility expert Lord Robert Winston has questioned whether the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia is responsible for an increasing number of infertile couples. He...

A woman doctor in Germany has been charged with second-degree murder after the alleged involuntary euthanasia of eight of her cancer patients. Prosecutors said that...

A 26-year-old mentally disabled Illinois woman is fighting attempts by her guardian to have her sterilised against her will. The woman, Kirsten Johnson, cannot care...

The British fertility authority is to consult the public about the possibility of allowing embryos to be screened for genes which carry an increased risk...

 Artificial wombs are a possible but distant solution to infertility, says an IVF researcher who has created them for mice. Dr Hung-Chin Liu, of Cornell...