Legal battle over 'right to die'
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A 30-year old terminally ill woman has launched a legal battle to force doctors to allow her to die.
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Dutch doctors are calling for a domestic legal framework that would allow them to end the lives of newborn babies suffering intolerable pain from incurable diseases, a move that rekindles the debate on the controversial issue of euthanasia.
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A bitter legal battle over whether  the husband of a brain-damaged woman should be allowed to  remove her feeding tube against the wishes of her parents  reached the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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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.
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Two drug firms and a charity for people with Alzheimer&#39;s disease are mounting a legal challenge Monday against a British government watchdog&#39;s recommendations about anti-dementia drugs prescription.
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TAMPA, Fla. - After being dealt a blow by the Florida Supreme Court, the family of a brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die case still has several legal options as they try to save her life, their attorney said Friday.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation&#39;s only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly.
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It's not official, but a "creeping  moratorium" on the death penalty in the United States is taking  hold as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge to the  method of lethal injection.
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The Justice Department asked the US Supreme Court Tuesday to hear argument on whether federal anti-drug law can trump Oregon&#39;s assisted suicide law.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold Attorney General John Ashcroft&#39;s power to stop Oregon doctors from helping terminally ill patients
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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 Supreme Court refused on Monday to step in and keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked to a feeding tube, all but ending a long-running right-to-die battle pitting her husband against her parents.
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TALLAHASSEE - A bitter legal battle over whether the husband of a brain-damaged woman should be allowed to remove her feeding tube against the wishes of her parents reached the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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Two drug firms and a charity for people with Alzheimer&#39;s disease are mounting a legal challenge Monday against a government watchdog&#39;s recommendations about anti-dementia drugs prescription.
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Attorneys for the parents of a woman at the center of a right-to-die case argued Thursday she would have been profoundly affected by new Catholic teachings on end-of-life issues.
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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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CALGARY - A Calgary man who waged a bitter battle to have his daughter receive a blood transfusion - against her wishes â-s suing his former church bretheren and doctors at an Edmonton cancer treatment centre.