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Massachusetts General Hospital renewed its effort to withdraw life support from an elderly woman who has been hospitalized with Lou Gehrig's disease for more than five years, despite objections from her daughter.
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Patients who experience medical or neurological complications following stroke, such as pneumonia or brain swelling, are at a greater risk of dying in the hospital, according to an article in the September 13 ...
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Doctors asked a High Court judge  Thursday to rule whether they have to keep alive a seriously  ill baby who has been in constant hospital care since her  premature birth 11 months ago.
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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, it was reported today.
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A Seattle hospital&#39;s recent decision to switch antiseptics from a brown solution to a colorless liquid appears to have played a key role in the death of an Everett woman.
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After a patient died of complications following a double mastectomy that she did not need, investigators are taking a close look at Mercy Medical Center.
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A woman whose life was saved by her local hospital co-ordinates a national campaign against NHS cuts.
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State health regulators said Thursday they were moving to revoke the license of a hospital where a patient recently died on the emergency room floor while waiting for treatment.
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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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A terminal leukemia patient must  have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to  do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive.  Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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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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One of the two patients hospitalized at Bayonne Medical Center in connection with a recent botulism poisoning has apparently been transferred to a different hospital.
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A group trying to prevent closure of the trauma center at an inner-city medical center filed a discrimination lawsuit, alleging the county is trying to dismantle the troubled hospital.
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A Montgomery County hospital threatened with state fines and loss of Medicare funding after a patient's death from malnutrition is back in compliance with state and federal regulators.
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Severely brain damaged, Terri Schiavo lies in a Clearwater nursing home unaware of the legal tug of war over her life. And on Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court wrote another chapter in this long-running right-to-die case.
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Piergiorgio Welby is paralysed and speaks through a computer An Italian judge has rejected a request by a terminally ill man to have doctors switch off his life support machine.Comment
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Workers at an inner-city hospital where a woman died last month on the floor of an emergency room have received training on their responsibilities, officials said.