A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit
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Modern medicine can keep people alive into their 9th and 10th decades, but a growing number of these people are asking why.
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Waiting for subjects to die is a somber part of the oncology clinical trial process.
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DEAR ABBY: I know you care about individuals taking steps each day to improve the quality of their lives. Please help me spread the word about improving the health of millions of Americans.
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Seeking to void the nation&#39;s only right-to-die law, outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the Supreme Court yesterday to give federal agents
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Being an optimist may help reduce your risk of dying from heart disease and other causes. A Dutch study found that people who described themselves as being highly optimistic
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A good man is hurting today and thereâs probably nothing that any of us can do for him. No amount of kind words and no amount of encouragement can serve as novocaine enough to dull the pain that Ron Zook is feeling.
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Retiring? Celebrate by jumping on the nearest treadmill. There's still time to save your body -- and mind -- from the ravages of old age.
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A terminal leukemia patient must  have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to  do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive.  Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the recent article on Dr. John Armitage and the open-heart program at Mary Washington Hospital [&quot;Vital Medicine,&quot; Dec. 12].
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It's not just a blue chip for widows and orphans.
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Experts debate whether people at the end of life should be able to take experimental drug treatments.
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Here's hoping you won't have to choose between health and comfort.
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An American institution is in danger of fading away.
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Let someone else make the tough decisions.
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More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds.
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Often, patientsâ âhave you ever ...â questions are less a therapeutic riddle to be solved than an expression of genuine skepticism that they can indeed be helped.
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A guaranteed check for life is a beautiful thing. Unfortunately, that beauty is fading.