Nurses to decide on resuscitation
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses to decide on resuscitating patients.
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If your heart suddenly stopped, how long should rescue workers try to save you? Should you be taken to the hospital even if you can't be revived and are likely to die? Canadian researchers say they've devised a test that helps rescue workers spot those futile cases and save a frantic trip to the hospital.
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Dutch health officials are considering guidelines doctors could follow for euthanizing terminally ill people &quot;with no free will,&quot; including children, the severely mentally retarded and patients in irreversible comas.
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A hospital in the Netherlands &#151; the first nation to permit euthanasia &#151; recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
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SUMMERFORD, Ohio - A woman says her life was likely saved when she answered a hang-up phone call. Mary Dhume of Ohio was watching television Monday night when the phone in the next room rang...
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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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Hospitals told to start special hiring; Health minister says funding is sign province is in &#39;high gear&#39; against C. diff. Quebec Order of Nurses president Gyslaine Desrosiers told a nursing convention yesterday
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Ambulance staff say they will hold a strike ballot if management do not agree to discuss their concerns.
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British and Irish officials were last night preparing a final response to DUP and Sinn Fein queries over their peace paper, before calling on the parties to make &quot;a momentous decision&quot; on its proposals.
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Plans to close a neurosurgery unit and centralise the service are put on hold as health minister Edwina Hart announces a review
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Doctors attending to Yasser Arafat will decide in the next few hours whether to take the ailing Palestinian leader to a hospital. Our correspondent, Jane Hutcheon, says two teams of doctors from Egypt and
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Doctors were battling on Monday to save the life of former Indonesian President Suharto, who remains critically ill, while another of Southeast Asia's long-serving leaders visited his bedside.
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Thousands of intensive care patients are set to benefit from a drug which has been recommended to NHS doctors.
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Patients are to be asked their views on NHS treatment in Scotland in a bid to improve services.
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Irish and British naval officers will decide how to rescue a fire-damaged Canadian submarine adrift in the Atlantic later on Thursday as a U.S. support ship made its way to the scene.
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If time spent transporting a suspected heart attack victim to a hospital could be used to work out a diagnosis and treatment plan, doctors say, more lives could be saved &#151; and now that will be possible in central Arkansas.
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Doctors asked a High Court judge  Thursday to rule whether they have to keep alive a seriously  ill baby who has been in constant hospital care since her  premature birth 11 months ago.