http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Fears that legalising euthanasia for very sick newborns would prompt the start of a "slippery slope" and lead to abuse of the option have proved groundless, says the architect of a dedicated protocol used by doctors in The Netherlands, in a special issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-slippery-slope-legal-euthanasia-sick.html Other Wed, 01 May 2013 18:30:02 EST news286645537 (AP)—Lake Annabelle Hall wouldn't be alive today if doctors at Children's Hospital of Colorado hadn't operated on a cyst on her left lung before she was born. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-baby-lake-fine-months-exit.html Other Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:59:04 EST news284709538 Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a young girl who gave birth last month was 12 or 13 and not nine as originally reported, and that her stepfather is the father of the newborn. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-young-mexican-mother-authorities.html Other Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:05:20 EST news280033513 A Mexican girl said to have given birth last month at the age of nine has disappeared with her baby, and authorities now suspect she may be older, a top prosecutor said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mexican-nine-year-old-mother-older.html Other Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:58:19 EST news279518288 A nine-year-old Mexican girl has given birth and authorities are looking for the presumed father, who is 17, officials said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mexican-girl-birth.html Other Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:47:56 EST news279348469 Bolivian doctors said Thursday they have successfully removed a 15-kilogram (33-pound) tumor from a woman in her 35th week of pregnancy who has since given birth to a healthy baby girl. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-huge-tumor-pregnant-bolivian-woman.html Cancer Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:05:01 EST news251654695