US - The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace, a cancer institute at the University of Pennsylvania, over accusations that he walked away with groundbreaking research and used it to help start a valuable biotechnology company.

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US - In May 1999, Donnie Kanter Winokur, 43, a writer and multimedia producer, and her husband, Rabbi Harvey Winokur, 49, beheld the son of their dreams, the child infertility denied them. Andrey, a pale dark-eyed 1-year-old in a cotton onesie, held in a standing position by a caregiver, appeared in a short videotape recorded in a Russian orphanage. If the couple liked the little boy, they could begin the legal process of adopting him. They liked the little boy very much.

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UK - This is baby Vivienne who was conceived by sperm that had been frozen for a generation - the oldest ever to successfully create a child in Britain.

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UK - The British “stiff upper lip” and the stigma surrounding death are denying more than 100,000 people a year the chance of dying in their own homes surrounded by their loved ones, a leading GP has warned.

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UK - For many cancer sufferers losing their hair is one of the most traumatic experiences, and can be even worse for children watching their parents suffer.

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