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Hope for cure for blindness - The Sunday Telegraph 5th July 2009
A surgeon who pioneered laser eye surgery to cure short-sightedness has announced a new technique which could prevent millions of older people from going blind.
Half of GPs will be women in four years - Daily Mail 3rd June 2009
Women doctors will outnumber their male counterparts within eight years, a report predicts.
They will achieve a majority among general practitioners within half that time, according to the Royal College of Physicians.
Doctors rarely help terminally-ill patients to die, survey reveals - The Guardian 25th March 2009
Doctors very rarely help those who are terminally ill to die, and two in three oppose changing the law to allow them to do so, research reveals today.
In only one in 200 deaths have doctors given a drug with the explicit intention of speeding death, according to a survey by Clive Seale from Queen Mary University of London, which updates work in 2004.
Majority of doctors opposed to assisted suicide - The Guardian 24th March 2009
Research shows doctors rarely help anyone who is terminally ill to die, while two-thirds are opposed to changing the law
Hope for millions of disabled people as scientists restore movement to paralysed limbs - Daily Mail 16th October 2008
Scientists have found a way to bypass spinal injuries and restore movement to paralysed limbs in an experiment that offers hope to millions of disabled people.
They have shown that it is possible to connect the brain directly to the muscles of a paralysed hand - and then use the 'power of thought' to move it.
Although the work has been carried out on monkeys, the American researchers believe it could be used by people within the next two decades.
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