Aborted babies used in Russian anti-ageing fad

"WEALTHY Russians are switching from investing their roubles in luxury yachts and designer jewellery to stem cell therapies in an attempt to maintain the vitality of youth into their old age.

The treatments, in which stem cells extracted from aborted or miscarried foetuses are injected into the body, is the latest anti-ageing weapon, following Botox injections and facelifts, to keep Moscow's youth-obsessed high society looking young.

And those who have admitted visiting the clinics now springing up across the Russian capital claim it works and has wiped years off their age."

Read more in this Scotsman.com article.