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Voluntary active euthanasia: Is there a place for it in modern day medicine?
South African Family Practice, 2008 This article discusses various ethical and legal concepts regarding euthanasia and includes concepts like physician assisted suicide, assisted suicide, voluntary active euthanasia, killing vs. letting die, indirect euthanasia and terminal sedation.
Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo +1 more
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Nonphysician-Assisted Suicide in Switzerland [PDF]
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2013 In general, legal responses to endof-life issues are not very different in Switzerland than in most European countries. For instance, active euthanasia (i.e., killing on request) is illegal, although it is treated as a lesser offense than murder or manslaughter.
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Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.Risperidone is a commonly used antipsychotic for treating psychiatric illness in children and adolescents. There is a large variability in risperidone response and discontinuation rates remain high. Pharmacogenomics offers the opportunity to improve risperidone outcomes, yet studies in pediatric populations are limited.
Jack W. Staples +10 more
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Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018 Background: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide.
Božidar BANOVIĆ +2 more
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One world connected: an assessment of Australia’s progress in suicide prevention [PDF]
, 2014 Overview: This paper provides a detailed assessment of Australia\u27s progress in suicide prevention. Written in response to the landmark World Health Organisation report Preventing Suicide: A global imperative, the National Coalition for Suicide ...
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the efficacy of a 16‐week therapist‐guided, smartphone‐based aftercare intervention as an add‐on to treatment as usual (TAU) following inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN). Method In this single‐center randomized clinical trial, 186 female inpatients with DSM‐5 AN (≥ 13 years; body mass index (BMI) ≥ 15.0 kg/m2 ...
Sandra Schlegl +4 more
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PLoS ONEBackgroundOver the past 20 years, assisted dying practices have been legalised in an increasing number of countries around the world. After a decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court in 2020, suicide assistance is unregulated in Germany but ...
Sven Schwabe, Franziska A Herbst
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Physician-Assisted Suicide in Alzheimer's Disease
, 1997 This paper takes up the question of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), reviewing arguments for and against in a broad interdisciplinary context.
Post, Stephen G.
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Despite its prevalence, research on binge‐eating disorder (BED) outcomes for residential treatment remains limited. To address this research scarcity, we evaluated changes in ED behaviors and comorbid symptoms, including depression and anxiety, for patients with BED that received residential eating disorder (ED) care from a ...
Kiki M. Kline +3 more
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ATTITUDE OF PAKISTANI DOCTORS TOWARDS EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE
Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2010 Objective: To determine the attitude of junior and senior Pakistani physicians towards euthanasia and assisted suicide. Study Design: A descriptive study.
Tahir Ahmed Munir +2 more
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