With no biology degree and just $3,000, he designed a personalized mRNA vaccine in a world first. Moderna and Merck are spending billions to bring the same technology to human patients.

Scotland's assisted dying vote is on a knife-edge with scrutiny mounting on the landmark Holyrood bill. MSPs will decide on Tuesday, March 17 whether to pass Lib Dem Liam McArthur’s assisted dying ...

MSPs will decide this week whether to legalise assisted death - in potentially the biggest decision in the history of the Scottish Parliament.

Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...

AN attempt to widen Jersey’s newly approved assisted-dying law to include people experiencing “unbearable suffering” has been decisively rejected by the States Assembly, just weeks after Members ...

NEXT week, MSPs will vote – for the final time – on the Assisted Dying Bill. Proponents of the bill believe that everybody deserves choice ...

The paving stones on Helena Hammer’s back patio were laid in place by her husband in the days before he died, his body weak from his failing liver, his skin alarmingly yellow.

Australians – whether they live in the city or the bush – deserve the same access to voluntary assisted dying. It is that ...

Professionals join opposition to controversial legislation over legal protections ahead of final vote by MSPs next week ...

The bill, if passed, would allow terminally-ill, mentally competent adults to seek medical help to end their lives.

Lord Stevens told the House of Lords he does not believe assisted dying should be within the remit of the health service.

Psychiatrists in Scotland have moved to oppose the Assisted Dying Bill after MSPs removed legal protections allowing doctors to ...