British woman launches legal battle for right to die
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A 30-year-old terminally-ill British woman launched a legal bid to force her doctors to let her die, in the latest battle against the law banning euthanasia.
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REVELATIONS that an NHS-backed charity helped women to travel to Spain for abortions that would be illegal in Britain are proof that the UK - s abortion law should be relaxed, a leading pro-choice campaigner ...
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One of the most agonising dilemmas ever to come before a judge - whether a baby should live or die - was outlined starkly and emotively in the high court yesterday.
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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 WOMAN who claims she was struck down with the deadly superbug MRSA while in hospital launched a landmark legal battle yesterday to win 30,000 compensation.
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An MP says the debate over a dying African woman being sent home should be about health care in her country.
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A female survivor of Islamabad's Red Mosque siege says she was prepared to die to defend the mosque.
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PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND - The British parents of a sickly premature infant are fighting a hospital in Portsmouth that has asked permission to not revive their baby if she again stops breathing.
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The parents of a seriously-ill premature baby have been permitted to have their High Court fight for her right to treatment heard in public.
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THE parents of a tiny premature baby clinging to life in a hospital oxygen box are preparing to let her die in their arms. A High Court judge yesterday ruled that Charlotte Wyatt should be allowed to die in
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Doctors caring for a critically-ill premature baby, Charlotte Wyatt, were given permission by a British judge to allow her to die if her condition seriously deteriorates and her breathing stops.
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A feeding tube for a severely brain-damaged woman can't be removed until appeals are exhausted in her parents' fight to have a new trial in the long-running right-to-die case, a judge ruled Friday.
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"Even if you are a refugee, there is nobody who cannot access health care in the U.K."  When Penny Campbell fell ill after a routine surgery in March 2005, the 41-year-old mother did what many Britons are instructed to do to avoid clogging up the country's emergency rooms: She called a telephone help line staffed by doctors.With worsening symptoms over the next four days, Campbell spoke to six doctors and saw two in person. When she was finally diagnosed with a blood infection, it was too late: Hours later, Campbell died from multi-organ failure.A government report blames a 'major systems failure' in the socialized health service's ability to access care outside doctors' normal working hours. The case stands in contrast to the praise lavished on Europe's socialized health systems in Michael Moore's new documentary, 'Sicko,' opening nationally this weekend. Read more
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A BRITISH couple has won the right to a public hearing as they fight to keep alive their premature baby, who is so ill she has never left hospital.
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A 16-year-old leukaemia patient foregoes further treatment so she can enjoy what is left of her life.
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When it comes to funding the search for a cure for breast cancer, there&#39;s no shortage of Londoners willing to stand up and be counted.
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The parents of a desperately ill baby have gone to the British High Court to challenge doctors who do not want to resuscitate her the next time she stops breathing.