Doctors neutral over euthanasia
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Two doctors groups have dropped their opposition to a bill which will allow them to help terminally ill patients die.
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Britain staunchly defended the right to use human embryos for medical research while the Vatican backed a complete ban on human cloning as U.N. members Thursday began two days of debate on the highly contentious issue.
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TORONTO -- The province will implement its final offer to doctors over the objections of the Ontario Medical Association. Health Minister George Smitherman said yesterday he doesn&#39;t require legislation to
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Parents regret not discussing death with their children who are terminally ill, a survey shows.
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There's nothing wrong with drug reps schmooze with doctors.
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Doctors say delivering specialist treatments to heart attack patients directly, not taking them to A&E, could save lives.
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The Vatican, ruling on a debate that has divided Catholic hospitals, said on Friday it was wrong to stop administering food and water to patients in a vegetative state even if they would never regain consciousness.
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Many doctors believe they have the right not to tell patients about treatments that they object to on moral or religious grounds and to refuse to refer patients elsewhere for the care, according to the first study to examine physicians' views on such situations.
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Doctors taking the Hippocratic oath swear to "abstain from whatever is harmful or mischievous," but the probe into plots to bomb targets in Britain suggests a group of medics may have ignored that vow. At least six doctors have been detained or are being questioned.
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In an interview, Jack Kevorkian says he will no longer advise terminally ill people how to die. But he still combatively advocates physician-assisted suicide.
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Assisted suicide could be offered to Britons who are not terminally ill, says the head of a controversial Swiss group.
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Women seeking an abortion should not need approval from two doctors, a British parliamentary committee says.
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Terminally-ill cancer patients should not believe that they can put off dying to avoid missing significant events such as birthdays, weddings, or Christmas, say scientists.
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Euthanasia proponent Dr. Jack  Kevorkian, dubbed &quot;Dr. Death&quot; for assisting in some 130  suicides, vowed on Sunday he will no longer help people end  their lives, even if they come to him in desperation.
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A doctor alleged Wednesday that Pope John Paul II violated Catholic teaching against euthanasia by refusing medical care that would have kept him alive longer &#151; a charge immediately dismissed by Vatican officials.
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Legal authorities faced an ethical dilemma over whether doctors should continue to prolong the life of a nine-month-old baby who suffers from a rare genetic disorder.
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Doctors' pessimism is wrongly denying patients with chronic lung disease treatment, a study says.