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StranshamFord v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others: Can active voluntary euthanasia and doctorassisted suicide be legally justified and are they consistent with the biomedical ethical principles Some suggested guidelines for doct

South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 2015
The recent case of Stransham-Ford v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others held that voluntary active euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide may be legally justified in certain circumstances.
David McQuoid-Mason
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Getting Real About Killing and Allowing to Die: A Critical Discussion of the Literature

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2021
The moral significance of the distinction between killing and allowing to die has played a key role in debates about euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.
Andrew Stumpf, Dominic Rogalski
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Deficiencies of regulation of euthanasia in legal acts of foreign countries

SHS Web of Conferences, 2014
Today in most countries the practising of euthanasia is not permissible and as in any case of a criminal offence, which endangers the life of a person, criminal liability applies here.
Polaks R.
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Attitude of doctors toward euthanasia in Delhi, India

Asian Journal of Oncology, 2015
Introduction: Deliberation over euthanasia has been enduring for an extended period of time. On one end, there are populaces talking for the sacrosanctity of life and on the other end, there are those, who promote individual independence.
Sheetal Singh, Sharma DK, Vijay Aggarwal, Preeti Gandhi, Sajjan Rajpurohit   +4 more
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The Dead Donor Rule, Voluntary Active Euthanasia, and Capital Punishment

, 2011
We argue that the dead donor rule, which states that multiple vital organs should only be taken from dead patients, is justified neither in principle nor in practice.
Levin, Noah, Coons, Christian
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Targeting Endogenous Lipophagy: A Novel Strategy to Enhance MSC Osteogenesis and Mineralization for Senile Osteoporosis Therapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Schematic representation of the role of lipophagy in bone mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs). In healthy MSCs, functional lipophagy efficiently degrades lipid droplets to support oxidative phosphorylation and cellular energy production, thereby facilitating osteogenic differentiation and matrix mineralization.
Chaoqiang Chen, Zhidong Liu, Yanhang Sun, Xiaojun Xu, Zhexiao Lan, Junhao Zhao, Peitao Xu, Guiwen Ye, Jinteng Li   +8 more
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Advance Directives for Voluntary Euthanasia: A Volatile Combination?

, 1993
Defenders of patient autonomy have successfully supported the legal adoption of advance directives. More recently, some defenders of patient autonomy have also supported the legalization of voluntary active euthanasia.
Francis, Leslie Pickering
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The small molecule simufilam dose‐dependently attenuates the worsening of seizures in a mouse model of tuberous sclerosis complex

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Novel epilepsy treatments for patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) and focal cortical dysplasia type II (FCDII) are urgently needed. In these patients, mutations in the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway genes lead to mTOR hyperactivity and focal cortical malformations that frequently cause intractable epilepsy ...
Branden Stansley, Md. Monirul Islam, Dean J. Aguiar, Zoë Fuchs, Mackenzie Catron, Stephen Morairty, Ying Yuan, Radleigh Santos, Jingguo Hou, Annelies de Kater, George B. Thornton, Angelique Bordey   +11 more
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CaMKIIβ insufficiency disrupts cortical networks, producing aberrant low‐gamma oscillations and seizure susceptibility

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Pathogenic variants in the calcium/calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase II B gene (CAMK2B) have been associated with neurodevelopmental disorders, including epilepsy, yet the mechanisms underlying cortical dysfunction remain largely unclear.
Hiroki Mutoh, Kazushi Aoto, Atsuo Fukuda, Hirotomo Saitsu   +3 more
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New Generation of Human Rights: Somatic Rights

Московский журнал международного права, 2009
Scientific and technological progress, especially in the area of medicine, genetics, biology and chemistry gives a lot of possibilities and raises a lot problem to us.
A. A. Abashidze, A. M. Solntsev
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