Vegetative state woman 'can die'
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The High Court has ruled a woman in a persistent vegetative state given an experimental treatment against her family's wishes can be allowed to die.
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The Vatican, ruling on a debate that has divided Catholic hospitals, said on Friday it was wrong to stop administering food and water to patients in a vegetative state even if they would never regain consciousness.
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By John F. Morrison, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 16--At age 26, Lena Thomas was deathly ill. The prognosis was not good, but she sent up a fervent prayer. She told God that if she were spared, she would devote the rest of her life to serving him.
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An elderly woman in California has died after waiting in a long line for a flu shot. Marie Franklin, 79, was waiting in line with her husband for more than five hours at a Safeway supermarket, when she collapsed and hit her head.
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A woman is in a critical condition after suffering a serious head injury when she was pushed from a sea wall on the Isle of Wight.
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It may be time to stop defining death purely in medical terms, an academic argues.
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NEW YORK  - Older women who eat a  relatively large amount of protein from red meat or dairy  products may have an elevated risk of dying from heart disease,  the results of a large study suggest.
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Out of death may come a rebirth. The alternative is much more likely to happen. And if it does the consequence will be a living hell that will go on and on and on.
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A terminally ill woman's religious fast unto death in northern India causes controversy.
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The widow of a man who had an assisted suicide says people should be able to choose how to die at home.
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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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A High Court judge has ruled that doctors can allow to let a seriously ill baby to die if she stops breathing again. The parents of 11-month-old Charlotte Wyatt, who was born three months premature, asked
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A terminally-ill British woman who won a legal battle to undergo euthanasia in Switzerland has carried out her wish, according to the Dignitas patients' association which announced her death.
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The fate of a seriously ill Baby born premature is now in the hands of a UK High Court judge. Medical experts want a judge to rule on whether or not they can allow Charlotte Wyatt, 11 months, to die if she stops breathing.
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Â· Grand chamber of human rights court to hear appealÂ· Women argue that one will lose house when other dies
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Florida's Governor Jeb Bush asked the US Supreme Court to intervene to keep a comatose woman alive, over the wishes of her husband, who wants to disconnect the feeding tube that has sustained her for 14 years.
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JACKSON, Miss. - Before she suffered a stroke and died, Ruth Grant was worried about losing her Medicaid benefits, her husband says.