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Doctors Make Strides in Treating Infants with Genetic Disorders
A debate under the umbrella of reproductive health is heating up regarding unborn children diagnosed with genetic disorders and whether their cases are as...
AMA Reconsiders Doctor-Assisted Suicide
An interim meeting of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates in November rejected two resolutions that would have softened its opposition to...
Canadian Mental Health Patient Offered Suicide Option
A patient in Canada says her clinician asked if she might consider assisted suicide, the Globe and Mail reported on August 9.
A 37-year-old Vancouver...
Ailing Canadian Transgender Patient Denied Assisted Suicide
A transgender patient was rejected by Canada’s Medical Assistance in Death (MAiD) program.
Lois Cardinal says debilitating pain following a 2009 vaginoplasty surgery for a...
Unresolved Issue: When Are You Dead?
A non-profit organization that drafts model legislation for state legislatures met to change the definition of clinical death.
During its annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii,...
Down Syndrome Patient’s Family Sues Hospital for Do Not Resuscitate Order
The family of a deceased Wisconsin patient is suing the hospital and staff for issuing a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order.
Grace Schara, a 19-year-old...
Vermont Becomes Medical Tourism Site for Doctor-Assisted Suicide
Vermont is the first state to enact a statute permitting doctor-assisted suicide for non-residents.
Gov. Phil Scott (R) signed Act 39 into law on May...
Stephen Moore: Stop Scaring Our Kids to Death
As nearly every standardized test is showing, our schools are doing an abysmal job teaching kids how to read or do math. In some...
Colorado Doctor Facilitated Suicide of Three Anorexia Patients
Annette Hanson, M.D., a psychiatrist at the University of Maryland, said “historically, we do not declare people futile when it comes to psychiatric illnesses. The suggestion is a form of coercion.”
Canada to Expands Doctor-Assisted Suicide to Mentally Ill
“So-called "safeguards" or "restrictions" written into euthanasia and assisted-suicide proposals are merely window-dressing to gain approval, soon gone and forgotten after legalization."