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The Barretts have a daughter after years of despair

A RADICAL change to Britain's organ transplant laws could be started as early as 2013, a report will recommend this week.

A WOMAN who gave birth after receiving the world's first whole ovary transplant yesterday described her newborn baby daughter as "a little miracle".

THE first patients are receiving early treatment for bowel cancer after their condition was detected by a new national screening programme.

Procedures that may cost tens of thousands of dollars in the United States can often be done for one-third or even one-tenth of the cost in Asia, with much shorter waiting times.

Cancer drug research is entering a new era which will mean more successful drugs for patients, says a charity.

Patients undergoing operations in some parts of Scotland may be twice as likely to die than those in other areas, official figures have suggested.

SCOTTISH doctors will lecture young teenagers in schools on the horrific reality of violence as part of a campaign against the nation's "booze and blades" culture.

A SLIMMING firm has been criticised for offering diets to pregnant women.

UroToday.com - Can we meaningfully separate inflammatory pseudotumor (a term used since 1937 1 from inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT, a term introduced in 1990 for lung lesions 2 and from sarcoma? The oldest large series of 38 such cases in the urinary bladder divided most of them into 17 pseudotumors and 13 sarcomas 3.