Three Southeast hospitals are partnering with the University of Alabama at Birmingham on a study to determine whether a telehealth platform can improve palliative care options for rural African-Americans. Community hospitals in Aiken, S.C., Alexander City, Ala., and Picayune, Miss., will coordinate the connected health project...
Ninety-three-year-old Vic Ide was having serious health problems last winter. His family thinks a chance meeting with another Navy veteran may have saved his life. “I saw the world and the ship was like a mother. It took care of you,” Joe Keilen said. For Joe, the...
A Michigan family says a nurse's gift of singing to an elderly patient in hospice may have helped him take a turn for the better. Watch the video here...
Physicians tussled here over whether the American Medical Association should continue its opposition to physician-assisted suicide (PAS) -- also known as "aid-in-dying." At the AMA's House of Delegates' Interim Meeting on Sunday, dozens of physicians made impassioned speeches, clashing over whether to ultimately endorse an AMA...
The Hague (AFP) - Dutch authorities are prosecuting a doctor for euthanising an elderly woman with dementia in the first case of its kind since the practice was legalised in 2002, officials said Friday. The female doctor, who was not named, allegedly put a sleeping drug...
Opponents of euthanasia have expressed concern at the creation of a “suicide machine”, which has been developed by Dr Philip Nitschke. The well-known advocate of individuals’ right to die has regularly caused controversy by assisting what he calls “rational suicides”. Having developed machines in the past that could...
Over the years, I’ve had a number of opportunities to provide presentations on disability related topics to university medical students. Instructors invited me to speak because they saw a problem in the fact that medical education included very little training on disability and independent living....
If there is any doubt that the legalization of assisted suicide has changed the ethos of medicine, that question should be settled by Craig and Dzeng’s article, “How Should Physicians Care for Dying Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis?” As psychiatrists and ethicists, we appreciate Craig...
Cases like Graham Robert Morant illustrate how patients are put at risk of coercion and abuse when assisted suicide becomes legal. "Graham Robert Morant was last month found guilty on two charges — counseling suicide and aiding suicide. The court heard there had been no conviction...
Three years after Canada's top court decriminalized doctor-assisted suicide, the federal government is about to wade into an emerging controversy: How to respond to requests from children for medical assistance in dying, or MAID. Canada's largest children's hospital has already gotten a taste of this thorny...