SOUTHFIELD, Michigan: Jack Kevorkian, the former pathologist once known as “Doctor Death,” says he will never again counsel a terminally ill person on how to die. But eight years behind bars and a strict list of promises to gain parole has done nothing to mellow the blunt, passionate, combative advocate for physician-assisted suicide.
In an […]
WASHINGTON: The unexpected turns in the case of Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, have riveted the country.
Speaker made two trans- Atlantic flights against the counsel of public health officials. A border guard let him into the United States apparently because he appeared healthy. His father-in-law works in the field of […]
Recent studies published in the journal Cancer Science have disproved the common myth that consumption of red meat increases colorectal cancer risk.
Published by the world’s largest society publisher Wiley-Blackwell, the study also found that consumption of fish and fish products was similarly inversely related to the risk.
High intake of red meat has traditionally […]
For Mayo Clinic patients with type 2 diabetes, the decision about which drug to try is in the cards.
Only six cards are in this unique deck. Each bears information about an aspect of diabetes care, such as weight change and daily routine. Patients pick the card of greatest interest and discuss with their doctor […]
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Hundreds of women who paid up to 4,500 for an anti-wrinkle treatment are considering legal action after claiming it did not work.
Isolagen was billed as a nonsurgical facelift when it was launched amid a huge publicity campaign four years ago.
However, some plastic surgeons who used the procedure, which involved injecting collagen cells […]
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