A new test, the Oncotype DX Prostate Cancer Test, developed by Genomic Health “can help distinguish aggressive prostate cancer from less threatening ones, potentially saving many men from unneeded operations for tumors that would never hurt them.” The New York Times explains that the number of men who...

An article in The New York Times reports the successful transplantation of a bioengineered trachea in a 2 1/2 year old girl who was born without a windpipe. Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a specialist in regenerative medicine, and his team “made a half-inch diameter tube out of plastic fibers, bathed it in a...

As increasingly more doctors use small cameras to treat patients, an article in the Los Angeles Times reports some patient-safety experts are advising doctors to hit the record button to improve safety and catch mistakes. One expert cites an example of the benefit from a study, in which 98 colonoscopies...