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Blaming lawyers a bogeyman to stop health reform

Opponents of health care reform have reached the brink of intellectual bankruptcy. With no original ideas or solutions, they've now resorted to bringing out a tried-and-tested bogeymen in a last-ditch attempt to derail much-needed legislation.

Australian granted right to starve to death dies of infection

An Australian quadriplegic who won the right to refuse food and water died Monday of an upper respiratory infection, his brother and a right-to-die advocate said.

Who's your daddy? A celebrity look-alike

First came naming babies after movie stars. Then there were copycats of celebrity outfits, Academy Award dresses and even nose jobs. Now, the celebrity chase is getting genetic.

Mother, son missing in forced chemotherapy case

A Minnesota judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for the mother of Daniel Hauser, a 13-year-old boy who is refusing treatment for his cancer, after neither she nor the boy showed up for a court appearance.

Ailing man's family finds kidney donor on Craigslist

One morning a couple of months ago at Westchester Medical Center, Dawn Verdick gave Daniel Flood one of her kidneys.

Comatose woman in euthanasia debate dies

An Italian woman who had been in a coma for 17 years and whose right-to-die case was being debated in the Italian Parliament has died days after doctors began removing her feeding tube.

Time.com: Italy's Terri Schiavo Case

An Italian appeals court rules that a father can cut off life support to his comatose daughter in a case that has echoes of a U.S. controversy three years ago

Time.com: When Does 'Do Not Resuscitate' Make Sense?

It has become a common instruction for patients of a certain age and infirmity. But things are not always so simple

Time.com: Was John Paul II Euthanized?

A controversial article by a prominent Italian doctor asserts as much, eliciting a strenuous rebuttal from the Vatican, which opposes euthanasia

Medical experts never testified in Katrina hospital deaths

A New Orleans grand jury that declined to indict a doctor on charges that she murdered patients in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina never heard testimony from five medical experts brought in by the state to analyze the deaths.

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