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Two young females, both brain dead without warning, remain on ventilators while their devastated families challenge the judgments of their hospitals.

What is osteopathic medicine and how is a doctor of osteopathic medicine different? Learn about osteopathic medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine.

Learn how medications can be used to treat substance use disorders, sustain recovery and prevent overdose.

Most older cancer patients received invasive care in the last month of their lives, a new study finds. That may not be what they wanted.

We all die eventually, of course, but these days it’s very hard for doctors and loved ones to let patients and relatives die without doing “whatever it takes”.

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Sometimes after injury or a long illness, the main organs of the body no longer work properly without support. Your health care provider may tell you that these organs will not repair themselves.

It’s been five years since my grandmother died, and I still remember how sterile, cold, and distant her hospital room felt, no matter my family’s loving

A basic introduction and summary of the voluntary act requirement. These notes include an overview of the actus reus of a crime.

Basic summaries and coherent overviews of omissions cases in criminal law.

An Act to consolidate section 16 of the Rent Act 1957 and Part III of the Rent Act 1965, and related enactments.

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The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, vol. 45, 3: pp. 402-420. , First Published October 18, 2017 You can download penultimate draft Here. ABSTRACT: Within bioethics, two prevailing approaches structure thinking about the role of medical surrogates who must make treatment decisions on behalf of

Does the suggestion of withdrawal of life-sustaining technologies reflect moral decay in our culture?