Supreme Court Asked to Take Schiavo Case
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Gov. Jeb Bush went to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in a bid to keep a severely brain-damaged woman alive over her husband's objections.
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The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court on Friday to hear its challenge to Florida's ban on adoptions by gays.
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NEW YORK Fourteen years after Theresa Schiavo slipped into a vegetative state, Florida&#39;s highest court said Thursday that Governor Jeb Bush had violated the constitutional tenet of separation of powers when he signed a law to keep Schiavo alive against
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The Supreme Court plans to rule today on a case that tests the limits of medicare. A British Columbia family is arguing the province should pay for the treatment of their autistic child.
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A federal court agreed yesterday to rehear a case that aims to get terminally ill patients early access to experimental drugs unlikely to be approved before they die.
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A bitter legal battle over whether  the husband of a brain-damaged woman should be allowed to  remove her feeding tube against the wishes of her parents  reached the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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A court mulls a terminally ill man's request to die in a landmark case which has sparked fierce debate in Italy.
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A local authority is asking the High Court if a chronically ill woman can be helped to travel abroad for an assisted suicide.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the Christopher Simmons case and consider a question that could affect 73 death-row inmates across the nation who committed their crimes before age 18: whether executing such inmates amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment," which is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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The Bush administration asks the US Supreme Court to block assisted suicides for the terminally-ill in Oregon.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    -----    Top Florida Court Strikes Down Tube-Feeding Law       The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that a law requiring a brain-dead woman to be connected to a feeding tube was illegal.      "We recognize that the tragic circumstances underlying this case make it difficult to put emotions aside and focus solely on the legal issue presented," the court said in its ruling...
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An Indian court's refusal to allow a terminally-ill patient to donate his organs triggers a legal debate.
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The Supreme Court is about to plunge into an agenda laden with issues affecting the business sector. Tobacco companies, the biotech industry and operators of coal-fired power plants have a stake in cases the court will hear in the next month.
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Description: The Florida Supreme Court rules unanimously to strike down &quot;Terri&#39;s Law.&quot; The legislation gave Florida&#39;s governor the power to ignore court rulings regarding treatment of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, the subject of a conflict between her
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on  Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his authority  to stop a Tampa man from removing the feeding tube that has  kept his brain-damaged wife alive for nearly 15 years.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Monday by two advocacy groups arguing that dying patients have a constitutional right to access experimental drugs that have not received regulatory approval.
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The US Supreme Court will on Monday take up the thorny issue of lethal injections in a bid to determine if this method of executing death-row inmates conforms with the constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.