Right-to-die issues divide Americans
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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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Experts debate whether people at the end of life should be able to take experimental drug treatments.
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The shortage of flu vaccine has become a major social issue in the United States, with thousands of elderly peopleâthose most at risk of life-threatening complications from influenzaâlining
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The Bush administration has appealed to US Supreme Court in an effort to block an Oregon law allowing doctors to help the terminally ill end their lives.
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While supportive care to relieve symptoms is now the standard of care at the end of life, a new study shows that a "sizeable proportion" of breast cancer patients nearing death do not have access to such treatment, also referred to as palliative care.
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Cancer death rates are down in the United States, but certain cancers seem to becoming more common. Why?
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A month after the US Supreme Court agreed to wade into the lethal injection debate, executions are effectively on hold across the nation as courts and politicians sit tight amid a legal limbo.
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VICTORIA (CP) - Right to die issues for the terminally ill and others are expected to be played out in a Vancouver Island courtroom where an elderly Victoria woman is charged with helping two women end their lives.
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Access to affordable health care is the top domestic concern among Americans and a majority say the U.S. government should guarantee health insurance to every American, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released on Thursday.
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Most Americans do not feel that  children or the elderly are getting adequate health care and a  clear majority feel it is the government's job to pay for it,  according to a survey released on Tuesday.
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Every year more than a million Americans are diagnosed with cancer. Every minute, another American dies from the disease. Itâs the disease, NCI Director von Eschenbach says, Americans fear most.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- People in two communities are struggling to cope with the killing of an expectant mother and the snatching of her fetus.
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MONDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Among Americans living to the ripe old age of 100 and counting, it is the ability to delay the onset of disability, and not the onset of disease, that seems to secure a long life.
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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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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation's only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly.
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More Americans are looking to Canada for ideas on fixing the health-care crisis.
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The United States has the best health care system in the world, but financial barriers prevent too many Americans from getting the affordable coverage they need.