Drug industry freebies at issue - Boston Globe  Some doctors have been queasy about it for years: To promote their wares, drug company representatives give physicians free stethoscopes, take them to Broadway shows, even treat them to stops at the corner service station in what the medical world calls a ''gas-and-go.''........

Heart surgeons suffer long hours, less pay - Boston Globe When Dr. Thomas MacGillivray's phone rang at 5:10 a.m., he suspected bad news and he was right: His chief medical resident was on the line about a Bosnian patient whose heart MacGillivray had repaired. He could barely breathe and his blood pressure had plummeted. The day had begun.....

Bush gets clean bill of health after routine colon screening - Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - President Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours yesterday during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health......

To save lives, legalise organ markets - Singapore Strait Times  LET there be organ markets.Patients are dying for want of transplants while we resolutely refuse to acknowledge that human biological materials (HBMs) are, in fact, already commodities.......

Weighing the risks of liposuction - San Francisco Chronicle  Tiffany Hall of San Francisco walked into the California Pacific Medical Center's Davies Hospital early one morning for what she hoped would be a simple little liposuction surgery.
The next morning, Hall, 31, a water-quality chemist for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, was dead.......