Transplant surgeon charged
In the first case of its kind in the US, a transplant surgeon is to stand trial in California for allegedly hastening the death of a potential organ donor. Hootan Roozrokh faces a charge of “dependent adult abuse” of a patient called Ruben Navarro, who died at the Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo in February 2006. Roozrokh has pleaded not guilty.
Antarctic ice exposed
The fate of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is hanging by a thread after a 41-kilometre iceberg broke away last month. Now a thin strip of…
