Spain legalises euthanasia and assisted suicide for long-suffering patients with incurable diseases The Bill was passed in 198-138 vote while Popular Party and Vox party voted ‘no’ Not put into effect until three months after it’s published in government gazette It will legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide for long-suffering patients Spain is following in the … Read more
Mother-of-three, 36, is diagnosed with incurable cancer after she held off going to the doctor for a stomach ache during lockdown because she ‘didn’t want to waste their time’ Johanna William, 36, from Burton, Staffordshire, suffered abdomen pains in April But she did not see a GP because she knew the NHS was ‘overwhelmed’ by … Read more
A Welsh father-of-six was diagnosed with an incurable cancerous brain tumour during lockdown, but medics are unable to tell him how long he has left amid coronavirus concerns. Gareth Harris, 51, was diagnosed with an aggressive and fast-growing tumour last month. But Gareth, from Carmarthenshire, said doctors have not been able to biopsy the tumour … Read more
A new leukaemia drug produced ‘very promising results’ in a trial, scientists have said. A team from Great Ormond Street Hospital tested the CAR-T cell therapy ‘CAT-19 CAR’ in 14 acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) sufferers. CAR-T cell therapies involve taking white blood cells from a patient’s body and engineering them to destroy specific tumours. The patients … Read more
SCIENCE CURED by Jeffrey Rediger (Penguin £16.99, 400 pp) When Jeffrey Rediger, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, began writing this compelling book about illness and wellness, he can hardly have imagined that it would have been published in the middle of a catastrophic pandemic. Rediger offers many clinically documented examples of people stricken with … Read more