The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold President Barack Obama’s historic overhaul is expected to be a boon to most of the health care industry by making coverage more affordable for millions of uninsured Americans. (Washington Post)

Doctors today rejected calls to take a neutral stance on assisted suicide. Medics at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) annual conference in Bournemouth reiterated their opposition to assisted dying, with one delegate likening it to murder. (Independent)

Efforts by health organizations to slow the spread of antibiotic resistance by reducing overuse of the drugs seem to be working, a new study says. (American Medical News)

One weekend about 10 years ago, when she was a nurse at a hospital in Cologne, Bettina Sorger volunteered to help the intensive care unit staff. One of her patients was still recovering from anesthesia after a surgery in which doctors removed a brain tumor. (Scientific American)

The Supreme Court on Thursday left standing the basic provisions of the health care overhaul, ruling that the government may use its taxation powers to push people to buy health insurance. (NY Times)

Bedtime for 3-year-old Isabella Kruger now includes a bottle and a massage. This ritual has become possible again as the toddler recovers from surgery that transplanted cloned skin onto her body after 80 percent of it suffered burns in a backyard accident. (Washington Post)

Grant Feusner, a 64-year-old security systems engineer, started having an odd constellation of health symptoms a year ago. (ABC News)

A German court in Cologne ruled on Tuesday that circumcising young boys represents grievous bodily harm, a decision that could have significant repercussions for religious groups. (NY Times)

Surgeons in Russia have successfully transplanted a completely synthetic chunk of the larynx. The operation, which has been performed in two patients, is the first step towards creating an entire synthetic voicebox. (New Scientist)

To take your own life in Oregon is a bureaucratic process replete with rules, forms and approvals. The main stipulation is that you are sane, 18, and have been given a prognosis of less than six months to live. (National Post)

Like just about anywhere else in the world, India’s top-rated television shows tend towards the less cerebral end of the spectrum – soap operas, talent contests, gameshows and, of course, the cricket. (NY Daily News)

Certain bone marrow donors could soon be compensated for their life-saving stem cells after federal officials declined to take the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court, allowing a lower court order to become law. (MSNBC)

A woman who was forced by local officials to abort a seven-month-old fetus this month and whose case has spurred a national discussion about China’s one-child policy said on Tuesday that she was “under a lot of pressure” and was being watched by guards in a hospital, who do not allow her to leave. (NY Times)

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has audited Celltex Therapeutics Corporation, a stem-cell treatment purveyor based in Sugarland, Texas. The results aren’t pretty, and this is only the beginning. (Nature News)

The heart of a genetically modified pig has been successfully transplanted into a monkey, according to scientists in South Korea. (Daily Mail)

After months of tweaking, researchers are finally ready to show off a high-tech headband that can translate Stephen Hawking’s brain waves into speech — providing what could eventually become an easier avenue for the paralyzed British physicist and many others to share their deep thoughts. (MSNBC)

The 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine went, at least in part, to the victors in a battle of aesthetics. Roughly 10 years prior, during the race to uncover the structure of DNA — the molecule of life — researchers bickered over how its strands fit together in three-dimensional space. James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins emerged as winners, but had pored over several models and designs before finding that a twisting ladder called a double helix held the structural key. (Wired)

Meet Roxxi - a feisty and fully-armed virtual nanobot. Billed as “medicine’s mightiest warrior”, she’s fighting an epic battle deep inside the human body where she launches rapid-fire assaults on malignant cells. (Reuters)

In a move that could significantly expand insurance coverage of weight-loss treatments, a federal health advisory panel on Monday recommended that all obese adults receive intensive counseling in an effort to rein in a growing health crisis in America. (LA Times)

Clare True had autism and periodic seizures, but nothing prepared her family for Christmas Eve in 2006, when the 26-year-old went to bed after watching a movie and stopped breathing. (NY Times)

Would you go to a drugstore to get tested for AIDS? Health officials want to know, and they’ve set up a pilot program to find out. (Washington Post)