1.   Demand is created by medical advance itself.

2.   It was made possible by the explosion of production, of resources, food, scientific information, and medical advances.

3.   Medical advances have made it possible to keep more patients alive.

4.   Medical advances in recent years have made male and female sterilisation simpler and more acceptable to many people.

5.   Other medical advances were often the subject of rather more hesitation.

6.   How can the difference between the possible and the affordable in health care be resolved, as medical advance continues to widen the gap?

7.   However the explosion of medical advance is now so great that choices will have to be made based on more rational criteria of health gain than at present.

8.   Although treatment for oral cancer has improved with recent medical advances, there has been no improvement in the long-term survival of those with the disease.

9.   And some biologists fear that as the bite of natural selection is relaxed by medical advances, the mutational baggage could become more significant in the centuries ahead.

10.   Are we eating our way out of future medical advances?