Terri Schiavo case is really about disability rights
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Oral argument on the Terri Schiavo case is scheduled for today in the Florida Supreme Court. Seventeen national disability organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief, the third disability brief in the case.
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With their legal options dwindling, the parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo renewed a plea to their son-in-law and legal adversary: divorce our daughter and give up the fight.
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Legal authorities in Britain faced an ethical dilemma over whether doctors should continue to prolong the life of a nine-month-old baby who suffers from a rare genetic disorder.
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With families every day making agonizing decisions about a loved one in a coma and famous &quot;right-to-die&quot; cases of the past such as Nancy Cruzan and Karen Quinlan, what is it about Terri Schiavo?
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Many voter rights' advocates are fighting to decertify electronic voting machines, arguing they're not reliable. But one bloc is behind the new equipment -- disabled voters who say the machines give them privacy.
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Needing a wheelchair isn't always the biggest complaint of people left paralyzed by spinal cord injury &#151; it's also the loss of bladder control. On Monday, Michigan doctors began a unique experiment to see if rerouting patients' nerves just might fix that problem.
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TAMPA, Fla. -- The lawyer for the parents of a brain-damaged suburban Philadelphia native, who are trying to keep her alive artificially, says the family still has several legal options despite being dealt a blow by the Florida Supreme Court.
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(Editor&#39;s note: What follows is a statement released on Sept. 23, 2004, by the family of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, reacting to a Florida Supreme Court ruling striking down
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The family of a state prison inmate from Richmond who died after dental surgery filed a federal civil rights suit against the Department of Corrections last week, claiming the state routinely deprives prisoners of adequate medical care.
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Angel Raich voted for California&#39;s Proposition 215 in 1996 because she thought medical marijuana might help others. Then came the night, a year later, when Raich steered her wheelchair into the bedroom of
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Few people understand the challenges faced by the District's disabled residents the way Judith E. Heumann does. She knows the impact of a broken elevator at a Metro station -- and the frustration of being told she cannot do something she wants to do.
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Here's a reality check amid Congress' showdown with President Bush over stem cell research: The potential treatments for diabetes, spinal cord injury and other devastating disorders are years away from being tested in people.
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Six days after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed at the request of her husband, a hospital began again pumping fluids into the brain-damaged woman on orders from Gov. Jeb Bush.
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The death of Christopher Reeve illustrated something that those who live with paralysis know all too well: for quadriplegics, infection is Public Enemy No. 1.
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CLEARWATER, Fla., Jan 28  - A brain-damaged  Florida woman whose fate has been disputed by her relatives  should be represented by her own lawyer rather than the husband  who wants to let her die, her parents said on Friday.
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Florida Supreme Court has struck down a law that blocked Terri Schiavo&#39;s husband from removing the brain-damaged woman&#39;s feeding tube.
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FLORIDA - The Florida Supreme Court has rejected efforts to keep Terri Schiavo alive by feeding tube. The woman who doctors say has been in a persistent vegetative state for 14 years.