A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines after publishing a report of successfully treating her own breast ...

A scientist who managed to treat her breast cancer by injecting her tumor with viruses grown in a lab has ignited a debate regarding the ethics of self-experimentation. Beata Halassy discovered in ...

A hand wearing a latex glove holds a small clear tube and dips a cotton swab into the liquid. Space for copy. When Beata Halassy learned in summer 2020 that her breast cancer had come back, she made a ...

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 ...