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Elvis had one. So did Anna Nicole Smith. They are the doctors who cater to celebrities, dispensing painkillers and sedatives to some of Hollywood's best-known entertainers.

Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, whose struggle against breast cancer during a winter at the South Pole captivated the world, ...

The first study of its kind finds doctors failed to inform patients of abnormal cancer screenings and other test results 1 out of 14 times.

Family of slain abortion provider George Tiller says his clinic will be "permanently closed."

The suspect in the fatal shooting of an abortion doctor in Kansas had professed an anti-government, anti-abortion philosophy in years past, some who knew him said.

Controversial US abortion doctor George Tiller has been shot dead at a church in his home state of Kansas, officials say.

A doctor in rural Australia used a household drill to bore a hole into the skull of a boy with a severe head injury, saving his life.

A controversial fertility doctor claimed yesterday to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women who had been prepared to give birth to cloned babies.

The cloning was recorded by an independent documentary film-maker who has testified to The Independent that the cloning had taken place and that the women were genuinely hoping to become pregnant with the first cloned embryos specifically created for the purposes of human reproduction.

Fla. prosecutors may reopen the case, following boyfriend and doctors' arrests.

Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.