UK travel restrictions on Switzerland make planning assisted suicides ‘impossible’, say campaigners

Travel restrictions imposed on UK travellers returning from Switzerland could make planning assisted deaths ‘almost impossible’ for terminally-ill patients and force loved ones to grieve in isolation, campaigners said. Travellers arriving in England from Switzerland after 4am on Saturday will have to self-isolate for 14 days, a rule which was also enforced in Scotland last … Read more

Alex Jones cuts finger and can’t be assisted on The One Show

Alex Jones cuts her finger live on The One Show as co-hosts Alex Scott and Matt Allwright are left unable to help due to social distancing rules By Rianne Addo For Mailonline Published: 20:35 BST, 20 May 2020 | Updated: 21:05 BST, 20 May 2020 The programme recently came under fire as viewers slammed the … Read more

Cancer cells have ‘chemically assisted mechanical drills’ to penetrate healthy flesh

Deadly cancer cells have ‘chemically assisted mechanical drills’ that use brute force to penetrate healthy flesh and spread disease around the body Experts have been able to measure the force cancer cells apply for this first time They created their own ‘cancer cells’ in the lab and used a new imaging method  The drills — … Read more

Germany scraps ban on assisted suicide; church groups protest

Germany’s top court scraps ban on assisted suicide, sparking dismay from church groups German lawmakers rule people have ‘the right to self-determined death’  The decision was made during a Federal Court session in Karlsruhe  Church leaders expressed their dismay at the landmark ruling which is ‘guaranteed in all stages of a person’s existence’ By Stephen Delahunty … Read more