US 'Dr Death' defends euthanasia
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Jack Kevorkian, the man  who helped the terminally ill to die in the US, says he did "the right thing".
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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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The husband of a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die dispute asked the Florida Supreme Court on Monday to reject Gov. Jeb Bush's effort to seek another hearing on a law designed to keep her alive.
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Pope John Paul branded euthanasia a distortion of medical ethics on Friday, saying doctors could not decide "who can live and who must die."
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Two doctors groups have dropped their opposition to a bill which will allow them to help terminally ill patients die.
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Concerns that legalised assisted death would be used to kill vulnerable people have not played out, a study says.
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Dr. Graham said, &quot;The FDA, as currently configured, is incapable of protecting America against another Vioxx. We are virtually defenseless.
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Two US regulators defended the Food and Drug Administration's handling of the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, disputing the contention of heart researcher Dr. Eric Topol that the agency could have forced Merck &amp; Co. to do more safety testing.
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The Bush administration asks the US Supreme Court to block assisted suicides for the terminally-ill in Oregon.
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People should be paid for living organ donations, argues a US surgeon in a leading medical journal.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to void the nation&#39;s only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients take their own lives.
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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 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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A hospital in the Netherlands &#151; the first nation to permit euthanasia &#151; recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
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A doctor's administration of drugs hastened the deaths of two babies and was "tantamount to euthanasia", an inquiry hears.
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The US Supreme Court will on Monday begin hearing arguments on the thorny issue of lethal injections in a bid to determine if this method of executing death-row inmates conforms with the constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
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Why didn&#39;t Bush outright prohibit the research, if he truly believed destroying embryos is killing? BY RAMESH PONNURU. Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at the National Review.