According to one study, during just the past 200 years, there have been 465 cases of self-experimentation documented in the medical literature, with eight recorded deaths. Most instances occurred in ...

Dr. Beata Halassy, a 50-year old PhD virologist, recently helped cure her recurrent breast cancer through careful medical self-experimentation. Specifically, she treated her cancer by injecting a ...

Science presenter and journalist Dr Michael Mosley was well known not only for his expertise, energy and passion as a broadcaster but also for trialling experiments on himself. From swallowing ...

A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines after publishing a report of successfully treating her own breast cancer by self-administering an experimental treatment. Having previously ...

Dominic Wilkinson receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Julian Savulescu is a member of the Ethics Advisory Boards of Bayer and Hevolution. He holds grants from the Wellcome Trust, European ...