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Medical assistance in dying (Chancellor's Lecture Series)
, 2016 In February 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the prohibition against physician-assisted dying violated the constitutional right to 'life, liberty, and security of the person'.
Harvey Max Chochinov +1 more
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An Indefensible Amendment to Medical Assistance in Dying Legislation
, 2020 In a mere 18 words, the federal government has introduced an amendment to Canada’s medical assistance in dying legislation that is discriminatory, stigmatizing and simultaneously overbroad and impermissibly vague and arbitrary.
Downie, Jocelyn
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Assisted Dying in Canada: Ideology Masquerading as Medicine?
Canadian Journal of BioethicsThe Canadian medical assistance in dying (MAID) law is commonly understood as a type of medically-based euthanasia and/or assisted suicide (EAS) law. I argue it is instead an autonomy-only EAS regime masquerading as such.
Scott Y. H. Kim
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Structure‐forward targeting of claudins with synthetic binders
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Claudins form the paracellular barriers between epithelial and endothelial tissues at tight junctions and are targets for molecular binders with the goal of modulating barrier permeability. Claudin‐binding molecules are relevant in drug delivery or in altering claudin interactions with disease‐causing proteins.
Alex J. Vecchio
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Does Allowing Track 2 MAiD Harm Disabled People?
Canadian Journal of BioethicsIn 2021, in response to the Superior Court of Quebec’s decision in Truchon v. Canada, the Canadian Parliament amended the Criminal Code to allow Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for some people who don’t have a “reasonably foreseeable natural death ...
Nicholas Abernethy
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L’assistance à mourir : un tour d’horizon comparatif des définitions juridiques
Sociologies, 2023 Euthanasia, assisted suicide, medical assistance in dying, death with dignity: these and many other different terms are used around the world to capture various types of assistance in dying.
Jocelyn Downie +3 more
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Organ donation after medical assistance in dying: a descriptive study from 2018 to 2022 in Quebec
Canadian Medical Association JournalBackground: Since the implementation of medical assistance in dying (MAiD), deceased organ donation after MAiD has been possible in Quebec. We sought to describe organ donations after MAiD in the first 5 years after this practice was implemented in ...
Matthew J. Weiss +5 more
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Epigenetic reprogramming of lineage switching in cancer
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Cancer cells rarely commit to a single identity. Epigenetic mechanisms and tumor microenvironment cues push epithelial cells toward flexible, hybrid states that can shift into mesenchymal, neuroendocrine, or stem‐like fates, driving metastasis, drug resistance, and tumor heterogeneity. Targeting the epigenetic regulators behind these transitions, using
Ezgi Boyvatlı +4 more
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Canadian Journal of BioethicsIn her paper entitled “Why Track 2 MAiD is Discriminatory,” Isabel Grant offers a compelling disability justice-based critique of Canada’s evolving MAID regime. She argues that Track 2 MAID, which concerns persons who are not approaching the end of life,
Nicholas Dunn
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Semantics in referring for medical assistance in dying [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018 The title “Doctors do not need to refer for medical assistance in dying” for the editorial[1][1] in the emailed list of contents for the February 20, 2018, issue is misleading. Physicians, at least in Ontario, do need to refer for medical assistance in dying (MAiD), so, as the article notes,
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