July 19, 2019
End of Life
July 12, 2019
Vincent Lambert: Frenchman at Center of End-of-Life Debate Dies
July 8, 2019
In Case of Mistaken Identity, Family Finds Relative Is Alive After Taking Wrong Man Off Life Support: Lawsuit
July 5, 2019
Rescue Authorities Struggle to Issue Guidance on Handling Instructions Not to Resuscitate
July 1, 2019
Mother of French Quadriplegic Brings Appeal to Keep Him Alive to U.N.
July 1, 2019
America Wasn’t Ready for My Grief
June 20, 2019
The Cryonics Institute, Where the Dead May Never Die
June 19, 2019
Miracle Machine Makes Heroic Rescues–And Leaves Patients in Limbo
June 19, 2019
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
June 17, 2019
A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
June 14, 2019
A New Edition of JAMA Internal Medicine Is Now Available
June 12, 2019
Never Say ‘Die’: Why So Many Doctors Won’t Break Bad News
June 5, 2019
Everyone Got the Dutch Euthanasia Story Wrong
May 30, 2019
Palliative Care Beyond Hospice Is Spreading to More States
May 30, 2019
Nurses Say Staff Shortages Pose Barrier to End of Life Care
May 29, 2019
A Final Comfort: ‘Palliative Transport’ Brings Dying Children Home
May 22, 2019
Washington State Lawmakers Just Approved Human Corpse Composting
May 22, 2019
Vincent Lambert: Life Support Must Resume After Court Reverses Ruling
May 16, 2019
Beaumont Family Fighting to Keep Woman Alive Despite State’s ’10-Day Rule’ for Hospitals
May 13, 2019
Treating a Patient with a Nightmarish Condition
May 6, 2019
A Rising Trend in Cancer Care Targets Physical, Existential Threats Patients Confront
(The Washington Post) – Often called palliative care or integrative medicine, the comprehensive approach focuses on patients’ emotional needs and physical symptoms in addition to treating the disease. In 2016, 1,831 U.S. hospitals — about three-quarters — had a palliative … Read More
April 29, 2019
AI Could Predict Death. But What If the Algorithm Is Biased?
(Wired) – The FDA is also looking at how AI will be used in health care and posted a call earlier this month for a regulatory framework for AI in medical care. As the conversation around artificial intelligence and medicine … Read More
April 26, 2019
A Good Life and a Good Death: What Is Palliative Care?
(NPR) – In her new book, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, Puri writes about how palliative care specialists are working to change medicine from within — teaching other doctors how to talk to patients about … Read More
April 25, 2019
Doctors Can Ignore Your DNR Order If You’re Pregnant
(Popular Science) – The family successfully sued—the authors of the law in question said that the hospital was misinterpreting it, and the fetus was no longer viable. But in more than half of America’s states, there are laws on the … Read More
April 23, 2019
UAE Woman Munira Abdulla Wakes Up after 27 Years in a Coma
(BBC) – A woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery after emerging from a 27-year-long coma. Munira Abdulla, who was aged 32 at the … Read More
