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Switzerland plans new controls on assisted suicide
Swiss assisted suicide organisation Dignitas is under growing pressure, as questions about its finances and urns of ashes found in Lake Zurich coincide with plans for a law that would make it harder for foreigners to end their life in … Continue reading
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German court legalises euthanasia with patient consent
A top German court has ruled that it is not a criminal offence to cut off the life support of a dying person if that person has given consent. The Federal Court of Justice acquitted a lawyer who had advised … Continue reading
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Uterus transplantation: ethics and pragmatics
Swedish media reported on plans of a group of researchers at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and the University of Gothenburg, to conduct the world’s first ever transplantation of a human uterus. more
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First trial of embryonic stem cells in humans
US doctors have begun the first official trial of using human embryonic stem cells in patients after getting the green light from regulators. more
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Stem Cells Without Embryo Loss
A small biotech company says it has found a way to produce human embryonic stem cells without destroying an embryo. That the prospect does not satisfy many religious conservatives who have opposed stem cell research demonstrates once again why the … Continue reading
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Many outraged as accused murderer gets liver transplant
Johnny Concepcion, a 42-year-old man accused of stabbing his wife to death, just received a liver transplant at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Now many are wondering how an accused killer could jump to the top of … Continue reading
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Terminally ill patients, caregivers feel lost connection with doctors
Once a patient becomes terminally ill, relationships between patients, their caregivers and their primary doctors can change. Now a study offers an unusual glimpse of what patients and their doctors are thinking as the end of life approaches — and … Continue reading
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The Doctor’s Failure to Cut Costs
In an editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Howard Brody, professor of family medicine and director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, writes that the medical profession, … Continue reading
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Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine
Kara Neumann, 11, had grown so weak that she could not walk or speak. Her parents, who believe that God alone has the ability to heal the sick, prayed for her recovery but did not take her to a doctor. … Continue reading
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Cancer victims
The insurance industry unfairly penalises people with cancer, charity Cancerbackup has claimed. more
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