A new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo provides a groundbreaking look at how advance care planning medical orders inform emergency medical service (EMS) providers' experiences involving people with intellectual ...
Oct 6, 2017
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New York's ban on assisted suicide stands after the state's highest court rejected arguments from terminally ill patients who want the right to seek life-ending drugs from a doctor.
Sep 7, 2017
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Doctors in the nation's capital may now begin the process of prescribing life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients.
Jul 18, 2017
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Fear of death is a fundamental part of the human experience—we dread the possibility of pain and suffering and we worry that we'll face the end alone. Although thinking about dying can cause considerable angst, new research ...
Jun 1, 2017
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(HealthDay)—The Trump administration may have failed in its initial effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but some activists hope White House support will prove valuable in changing another piece of federal health care ...
Apr 6, 2017
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Supporters of allowing terminally ill patients in unbearable pain to end their lives by self-ingesting doctor-prescribed drugs said Wednesday they hope to pass legislation in Maryland this year now that the state's medical ...
Jan 25, 2017
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The views among physicians and the general public when it comes to deciding whether to withhold or withdraw treatment of terminally ill patients differ greatly. However, in a hypothetical case study at Umeå University in ...
Jan 19, 2017
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There's no mystery about what older adults want when they become seriously ill near the end of their lives.
Nov 15, 2016
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The full D.C. Council will get its first chance to consider a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with the help of a doctor.
Oct 18, 2016
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In recent years, physicians' orders for life sustaining treatments (POLST) forms have been seen as an important way to honor the end-of-life wishes of frail elderly or terminally ill patients who cannot speak for themselves.
Sep 29, 2016
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