Justices Wonât Hear Appeal on Drugs for Terminally Ill
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The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a case that ruled that terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to try drugs that have not received federal approval.
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Several U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed reservations on Monday about allowing medical marijuana for sick patients whose doctors have recommended they smoke it for pain.
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The US Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments over whether states can permit the seriously ill to buy or grow marijuana to ease their pain.
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The United States Supreme Court refused to hear arguments for keeping a comatose woman alive over the wishes of her husband, dealing a blow to Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who wants to retain her feeding tube.
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The Supreme Court refused Monday to review a ruling that terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs Â even if that means the patient will likely die before the medicine is approved.
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The Supreme Court, in a case being watched around the world, on Monday hears arguments about whether to ban the lethal three-drug cocktail used in most U.S. executions because it inflicts excruciating pain.
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The principle of states&#39; rights faced a stiff challenge at the US Supreme Court yesterday, as the justices tried to decide whether federal drug laws should trump a California
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A man with cancer overturns an NHS decision which stopped him getting funds for drugs that will prolong his life.
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By The Associated Press  WASHINGTON - The widow of a leukemia victim failed to persuade the Supreme Court Monday to consider allowing her to sue oil companies over her husband's exposure to a toxic chemical.
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The Supreme Court refused on Monday to step in and keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked to a feeding tube, all but ending a long-running right-to-die battle pitting her husband against her parents.
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules against the possibility of a national class action Vioxx lawsuit.
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The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a lower court decision upholding the Federal Trade Commission&#39;s imposition of a national do not call registry.
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The Supreme Court appeared hesitant yesterday to endorse medical marijuana for patients who have a doctor&#39;s recommendation. Justices are considering whether sick people in 11 states with medical marijuana laws can get around a federal ban on the drug.
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A decision to deny Alzheimer's drugs to patients with mild-stage disease is challenged at the High Court.
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An appeals court Wednesday denied a request from the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman for a new trial in the long-running right-to-die case, according to the court clerk's office.
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Can states allow residents to use marijuana for medical reasons when the federal government says no? That is the question being currently debated by the justices
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Two Northern California women who say medical marijuana is their only shield from a life of agony take their case to the US Supreme Court on Monday in a clash between federal power to regulate drug use and a state&#39;s authority to determine medical care for