[NPR] In a widely watched case in Florida this week, a jury ruled that a hospital acted “reasonably” when it sent an undocumented immigrant who had no health insurance back to his native Guatemala. The case highlights a rare but growing problem, and it could affect how hospitals treat such patients in the future.
The case [...]

Donors may get up to $10,000, an amount critics say could induce women to take unnecessary medical risks.
 
[American Medical News] The board that administers New York’s stem cell research funding program recently approved using state money to pay women who donate fresh oocytes for an experimental technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer, also known as [...]

 
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida [Reuters] – A Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station said on Sunday it looks like Earth’s ice caps have melted a bit since he was last in orbit 12 years ago.
Bob Thirsk, who is two months into a planned six-month stay aboard the station, said he is mostly in awe when he looks [...]

[NYT] Baseball scouts are agog over Miguel Sano’s hands — strong, supple and deft. But he still had to place them under a bone-scan machine, just in case.
Sano, a shortstop roundly considered the best unsigned prospect from the talent-rich Dominican Republic, twice underwent such a procedure to help assess whether he actually is 16 years old [...]

(Business Wire) At a time when the competition between hospitals is at a fevered pitch, a new survey of 800 Massachusetts adults shows that consumers are questioning the longstanding practice of taking their doctor’s advice about where to go for medical care. They also are conducting their own research to determine where to receive their [...]

[Huffington Post] Just a little while ago, GOP Rep. Steve Scalise from Louisiana was riven with concern over the terrifying prospect of government intervention in health care. He came armed with a sob story that really just goes to show the lengths to which people will go to obfuscate the underlying issues.
SCALISE: When you look [...]

[NYT] PETER SINGER – You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?
The costs of the current [...]

 
[AP] WASHINGTON — Harry and Louise are coming back to television screens across the country to talk about overhauling health care. This time, they’ve switched sides.
TV ads featuring the fictional couple played a big role in derailing President Bill Clinton’s effort to revamp the medical system in the 1990s. Back then, actors Louise Caire Clark [...]

[NYT] LONDON — The controversy over the ethical and legal issues surrounding assisted suicide for the terminally ill was thrown into stark relief on Tuesday with the announcement that one of Britain’s most distinguished orchestra conductors, Sir Edward Downes, had flown to Switzerland last week with his wife and joined her in drinking a lethal cocktail of [...]

[WSJ] The Food and Drug Administration approved labeling that will allow 17-year-olds access to the Plan B emergency-contraceptive pill without a prescription.
The agency also approved a one-dose version of the product called Plan B One-Step that will also be available over the counter to women age 17 and older. Both products are sold by Duramed Pharmaceuticals, [...]