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Sex Differences in Social, Health, and Lifestyle Characteristics Associated With Binge‐Eating Behaviors: Results From a French National Random Population‐Based Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore sex differences in social, health and lifestyle characteristics associated with binge‐eating behaviors in a large population‐based study. Method This study included 84,995 participants (women 52.1%) aged ≥ 15 years from the French national random population‐based EpiCov cohort.
Junko Kose   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia

open access: yesIranian 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
doaj  

Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide -- the Case for Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide

open access: yes, 2001
Ethical and legal debates over ending life are inescapably emotive, controversial and complex. It is, however, increasingly urgent to resolve the debate over the legalization or continued prohibition of physician assisted suicide for a number of reasons,
Manga, Pran
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Assisted Suicide by Oxygen Deprivation With Helium at a Swiss Right-to-Die Organisation

open access: yes, 2010
BACKGROUND: In Switzerland, right-to-die organisations assist their members with suicide by lethal drugs, usually barbiturates. One organisation, Dignitas, has experimented with oxygen deprivation as an alternative to sodium pentobarbital.
Ogden, Russel D   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Reward Processing in Binge Eating and Harmful Drinking: A Systematic Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Binge eating and harmful drinking commonly co‐occur, which worsens the physical and psychological consequences associated with either behavior alone. Reward processing alterations have been demonstrated among individuals who engage in binge eating or harmful drinking alone; however, there is limited understanding of how different ...
Taylor N. Breddy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The request for assisted suicide – a challenging topic to teach in medical education. Project report on a compulsory elective course at the Aachen University Hospital

open access: yesGMS Journal for Medical Education
Aim: As part of the Erasmus+ project “ELPIS”, a compulsory elective course in palliative medicine on handling wishes to die and the desire for suicide was put into place and offered for the first time at the Clinic for Palliative Medicine at RWTH Aachen ...
Scherg, Alexandra   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Voice Against Physician-Assisted Suicide

open access: yes, 1997
In the early hours of November 14, 1996, Card. Joseph Bernardin died of pancreatic cancer. The Archbishop of Chicago approached death not in fear but as a "transition from earthly life to life eternal." One of his last public acts was writing a letter to
Leibold, Peter, Gilham, Charles
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Voluntary Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and the Goals of Medicine

open access: yes, 2006
It is plausible that what possible courses of action patients may legitimately expect their physicians to take is ultimately determined by what medicine as a profession is supposed to do and, consequently, that we can determine the moral acceptability of
Varelius, Jukka, JUKKA VARELIUS
core   +1 more source

Therapist‐Guided Smartphone‐Based Aftercare for Inpatients With Severe Anorexia Nervosa (SMART‐AN): A Randomized Clinical Trial

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Language Lost in MAiD

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics
For most of Canada’s approximately 40-year debate on medically assisted death, euthanasia and assisted suicide were considered distinct issues. Yet in 2016 their ethical, psychological, and practical differences were effectively disregarded when the two
Rafal Gromadzki, Timothy Christie
doaj   +1 more source

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