Call to revamp death definition
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It may be time to stop defining death purely in medical terms, an academic argues.
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Doctors in the Netherlands call for new laws allowing the mercy killing of newborn babies under certain conditions.
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A proposal to revive a blasphemy law to calm sectarian tensions in Holland has outraged artists, writers and the political elite. The killing was followed by bomb attacks on mosques and reprisal attacks on churches.
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WASHINGTON The death of a Northern California woman last year has prompted the maker of a so-called abortion pill to add new warnings about its use.
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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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UNITED NATIONS A high-level panel is calling for changes in the United Nations to better handle global threats in the 21st century.
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A high-level report calls for the UN to be reformed  to allow more intervention in failed states,  the BBC learns.
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Colombo - Sri Lanka on Monday short-circuited legal formalities to speed up funerals for the thousands of dead in this country which suffered the heaviest loss of life from tidal waves which swept across Asia on Sunday, an official said.
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses to decide on resuscitating patients.
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Vatican theologians are leaning toward revising centuries-old teaching that babies who die without baptism go to limbo instead of heaven, officials said Friday.
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Advisers recommend a radical overhaul of the UK organ donor network in a bid to double transplant numbers.
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Everyone should be an organ donor when they die unless they have asked not to be, the chief medical officer says.
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The government's shake-up of GP out-of-hours care has been criticised by an inquiry into a death of woman.
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Gordon Brown is urged to adopt a new approach in an effort to rebuild the morale of millions of workers.
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Doctors may have to take a more active role in addressing the spiritual needs of patients with terminal illnesses, a study suggested on Thursday.
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The parents of a  baby at the centre of a right-to-life battle claim doctors are trying to hasten her death.
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Everyone should be viewed as an organ donor when they die unless they request not to be, England's top doctor says.