- Woman 'denied a termination' dies in hospital--Even though Ireland's law allows abortion when it's to save the life of the mother, the doctors refused to act.
- Husband: 'I still can't believe she's gone. She was so full of life' --He says her last days were full of pain from the ensuing blood poisoning, and she died in agony.
- Ireland Abortion Scandal: Death of a Pregnant Woman Prompts Soul-Searching--The Youth Defence group still had the temerity to say that "Ireland's ban on abortion does not pose a threat to women’s lives."
- UN says access to contraception a human right
- Catholic Leaders Vow to Stand Against Contraception Mandate, Same-sex Marriage--What they're really against is sex outside marriage, but it seems like they've been avoiding mentioning that.
- Philippines: RH bill can't be held hostage by one senator--Some would rather see it killed outright.
- Right-to-die law appalling, says Health Minister Anna Soubry--"Anna Soubry told the Times it was "ridiculous and appalling" that Britons had to 'go abroad to end their life.'"
- Life-support ruling upheld in case of starved girl--"The Alberta Court of Appeal upheld a ruling Wednesday to remove a child from life-support over the objections of her parents who are accused of beating and starving her."
- Study: Assisted suicide legality does not increase patient death wish
- Cipla slashes prices of 3 cancer drug by up to 63%--"India's No. 2 drugmaker Cipla has slashed the prices of three of its anti-cancer drugs by up to 63%, a move that comes six months after it announced similar price cuts on three other anti-cancer products."
- Pfizer caught "gaming the system," loses Viagra patent in Canada
- Friends in Congress Have Helped Drug Compounders Avoid Tighter Rules NYT
- Bad to the bone: A medical horror story--"When medical device company Synthes decided to illegally test a bone cement on people, the results were disastrous. A disturbing tale of corporate crime and punishment."
- Italy: Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules--"A landmark court case has ruled there is a link between using a mobile phone and brain tumours, paving the way for a flood of legal actions."
- 'Hypersensitive' Wi-Fi hater loses case against fiendish devices
- Most of what you read was wrong: how press releases rewrote scientific history
- Five photos that sparked body image debates
- Steven Boone tried to spread HIV, Crown alleges--If this is what really happened, this is despicable.
- HIV 'made' new deadly Salmonella - study
- Outbreak of virus in SARS family has WHO on alert
- Scores isolated as new outbreak of Ebola fever kills 2 in district near the Ugandan capital
- London at risk of 'catastrophic' legionnaires' outbreak: Report
- The Rise of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea--"Public-health experts are alarmed by the emergence of a strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to the last drug available against it, and they fear it's the harbinger of a sexually transmitted global epidemic."
- Three quarters of rats in parts of West 'resistant to poison'--Eek.
