An Italian judge has rejected a request by a terminally ill man to have doctors switch off his life support machine. more

Last week, doctors declared Cheng, a grandfather of seven who suffered cardiac arrest the day after Thanksgiving, brain-dead and said it was time to remove him from the ventilators and intravenous medicines keeping his organs functioning. But the family refused … Tęsti skaitymą →

Unsafe abortions in the developing world kill 68,000 women a year, research suggests. more

A woman in a vegetative state will be given a sleeping pill which may „wake her up“ against her family’s wishes. more

The latest time at which an abortion can be carried out should be cut from 24 weeks to 21 weeks, a Tory MP is due to argue in the Commons. more

„We need to ask our doctors — and our doctors need to answer — questions like, ‘What’s the shortest and longest time you think I have?’ “ she said. The other question patients might want to ask, she said, is, … Tęsti skaitymą →

Over the last few years abortion has been hitting the headlines with many arguing the upper limit should be reduced. But doctors who are at the front-line of the debate are struggling to come down on either side. more

Assisted suicide could be offered to Britons who are chronically depressed rather than terminally ill, says the head of a controversial Swiss group. more

Eight hundred British people are registered with Dignitas, the Swiss clinic that helps the terminally ill end their lives – up 100 since January. more

Colombia’s first legal abortion has taken place after the deeply-Catholic nation legalised the procedure in May. more