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Drawing a Line Between Killing and Letting Die: The Law, and Law Reform, on Medically Assisted Dying [PDF]

, 1993
Traditional medical ethics and law draw a sharp distinction between allowing a patient to die and helping her die. Withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment, such as by abating technological nutrition, hydration or respiration, will cause ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
core   +1 more source

Medical Aid in Dying Residency and Fellowship Curriculum

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Laura Belland, Evan Pulvers
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The euthanasia law from the perspective of healthcare professionals in Spain

BMC Medical Ethics
Background In 2021, Spain passed Organic Law 3/2021, which regulates euthanasia and represents an extension of rights to make decisions in the context of health care.
Rosana Triviño-Caballero, Mª Teresa López de la Vieja, Isabel Roldán-Gómez, Mª Isabel Tamayo-Vázquez, Tayra Velasco-Sanz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aftercare Provision for Bereaved Relatives Following Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study Among Physicians

International Journal of Public Health
Objectives: Relatives of patients who died after euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (EAS) might need (specific) aftercare. We examined if and how physicians provide aftercare to bereaved relatives of patients who died after EAS, and which patient-,
Sophie C. Renckens, Sophie C. Renckens, H. Roeline Pasman, H. Roeline Pasman, Agnes van der Heide, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen   +6 more
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How to talk with dying patients and their families after disasters and humanitarian crises: a review of available tools and guides for disaster responders

Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2019
In responding to those affected by sudden onset disasters and chronic humanitarian crises, disaster responders and humanitarian aid workers will face the challenge of caring for dying patients.
B. R. Daubman, H. Cranmer, L. Black, A. Goodman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linking neurogenesis, oligodendrogenesis, and myelination defects to neurodevelopmental disruption in primary mitochondrial disorders

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Mitochondrial remodeling shapes neural and glial lineage progression by matching metabolic supply with demand. Elevated OXPHOS supports differentiation and myelin formation, while myelin compaction lowers mitochondrial dependence, revealing mitochondria as key drivers of developmental energy adaptation.
Sahitya Ranjan Biswas, Porter L. Tomsick, Alicia M. Pickrell, Paul D. Morton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?

BMC Medicine, 2017
Jox and colleagues recently compared and contrasted two leading end-of-life exit options, namely voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) and medical aid in dying (MAID).
Thaddeus Mason Pope
doaj   +1 more source

The neural crest‐associated gene ERRFI1 is involved in melanoma progression and resistance toward targeted therapy

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
ERRFI1, a neural crest (NC)‐associated gene, was upregulated in melanoma and negatively correlated with the expression of melanocytic differentiation markers and the susceptibility of melanoma cells toward BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi). Knocking down ERRFI1 significantly increased the sensitivity of melanoma cells to BRAFi.
Nina Wang, Qian Sun, Daniel Novak, Lei Zhu, Juliane Poelchen, Tamara Steinfass, Yiman Wang, Viktor Umansky, Jochen Utikal   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Common Law Roadmap for State Courts [PDF]

, 1997
Part I examines the development of the law legalizing passively hastening death and how this development relied significantly on distinguishing passively hastening death from actively hastening death.
Meisel, Alan
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Improving end-of-life care in acute geriatric hospital wards using the Care Programme for the Last Days of Life : study protocol for a phase 3 cluster randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The Care Programme for the Last Days of Life has been developed to improve the quality of end-of-life care in acute geriatric hospital wards.
Cohen, Joachim, Costantini, Massimo, Deliens, Luc, Smets, Tinne, Van Den Noortgate, Nele, Verhofstede, Rebecca   +5 more
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