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DEFENDING THE NEED FOR PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA [PDF]

, 2017
This work intends to defend the need for the United States to adopted a law such as Holland’s Euthanasia Law to ensure the best possible medical interventions and options are provided to all.
LaGrange, Vanessa
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Does Physician Assisted Suicide Violate the Integrity of Medicine?

, 1995
This paper evaluates the arguments against physician assisted suicide which contend that it violates the integrity of medicine and the physician-patient relation; i.e., that it contradicts the goal of seeking health and healing, violates an absolute ...
Momeyer, Richard
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Risk of hostility and aggression with perampanel monotherapy versus combination therapy in pediatric epilepsy: A Japanese post‐marketing database study using a nested case–control design

Epileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To compare the incidence of hostility‐ and aggression‐related adverse events in children with focal‐onset seizures (FOS), with or without focal to bilateral tonic–clonic seizures (FBTCS), receiving perampanel as monotherapy or in combination with other antiseizure medications (ASMs).
Yukitoshi Takahashi, Masato Takeuchi, Akiko Yoshimura, Kasumi Daidoji, Kazuhiro Matsutani, Mika Ishii   +5 more
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Determinants of Public Attitudes towards Euthanasia in Adults and Physician-Assisted Death in Neonates in Austria: A National Survey.

PLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundEuthanasia remains a controversial topic in both public discourses and legislation. Although some determinants of acceptance of euthanasia and physician-assisted death have been identified in previous studies, there is still a shortage of ...
Erwin Stolz, Nathalie Burkert, Franziska Großschädl, Éva Rásky, Willibald J Stronegger, Wolfgang Freidl   +5 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: Developments in the Netherlands

, 1998
Physician-assisted suicide can now be officially and legally carried out for psychiatric patients in The Netherlands who request it, provided that criteria are met.
Asmus, Frank P., Schoevers, Robert A., Van Tilburg, Willem   +2 more
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Progress report on new epilepsy treatments: A summary of the Eighteenth Eilat Conference on New Antiepileptic Drugs and Devices (EILAT XVIII). I. Treatments in preclinical and early clinical development

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the last 34 years, the Eilat Conference on New Antiepileptic Drugs and Devices has provided an interactive forum for stakeholders to discuss investigational and recently licensed treatments for seizures and epilepsy. The Eighteenth Eilat Conference on New Antiepileptic Drugs and Devices (EILAT XVIII) took place in Madrid, Spain, on May 3 ...
Meir Bialer, Cecilie Johannessen Landmark, Matthias J. Koepp, Emilio Perucca, Piero Perucca, Torbjörn Tomson, H. Steve White, Elaine Wirrell   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and palliative sedation: attitudes and knowledge of medical students

GMS Journal for Medical Education, 2016
Objectives: In November 2015, the German Federal Parliament voted on a new legal regulation regarding assisted suicide. It was decided to amend the German Criminal Code so that any “regular, repetitive offer” (even on a non-profit basis) of assistance in
Anneser, Johanna, Jox, Ralf J., Thurn, Tamara, Borasio, Gian Domenico   +3 more
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Perils and progress in epilepsy surgery utilization: Twenty‐five years later

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract More than 25 years have passed since the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) established that surgery is superior to continued anti‐seizure medication (ASM) for drug‐resistant temporal lobe epilepsy, and nearly as long since a joint practice parameter urged that appropriate surgical candidates be referred to a specialized center for ...
Dario J. Englot
wiley   +1 more source

DECREASE study: A European pool‐analysis of patients with significant reductions in concomitant antiseizure medications in cenobamate Early Access Programs

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To evaluate the effectiveness and tolerability of cenobamate in patients with a significant reduction in concomitant antiseizure medication (ASM) in European cenobamate Early Access Programs (EAPs). Method Anonymized patient data from real‐world studies/registries associated with European cenobamate EAPs were pooled.
Vicente Villanueva, Simona Lattanzi, Javier Peña‐Ceballos, Rhys H. Thomas, Juan Rodríguez‐Uranga, Zsófia Jordán, Bernhard J. Steinhoff, Randi von Wrede, Norman Delanty, Patrick B. Moloney, Roberta Roberti, Giovanni Boero, Laura Canafoglia, Nicola Specchio, Antonio Gambardella, Edoardo Ferlazzo, Francesca Felicia Operto, Elena Tartara, Hester Garratt, Dániel Fabó, Asier Gómez‐Ibáñez, Gustavo Torres‐Gaona, Yulia Novitskaya, Rainer Surges, Kevin Hampel, Andreas Schulze‐Bonhage   +25 more
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Assisted Suicide Heads to Colorado

Voices in Bioethics, 2017
While the outcome of our recent election cycle has represented a country with polarized viewpoints of America’s future policies, one ballot initiative has emerged as a force of consensus.
Tyler Cosmer
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