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

, 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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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Facts, Figures and Fancies With Special Regard to Old Age

, 1998
The objective of this paper is to describe the ethics and incidence of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) with special regard to old age.
Muller, Martien T., Kimsma, Gerrit K., van der Wal, Gerrit   +2 more
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A Little Support Goes a Long Way: A Mixed‐Methods Pilot Study of Supported Digital CBTe for Recurrent Binge Eating

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Eating disorders characterized by recurrent binge eating are prevalent, impairing, and undertreated. Digital programme‐led interventions may increase access to recommended treatments, but completion rates are variable. Adding brief human support to digital programmes may improve completion and outcomes.
Rebecca Murphy, Emma L. Osborne, Charandeep K. Khera   +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

GMS 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, Wegmann, Miriam, Biersching, Thekla, Fink, Daniel, Lemos, Martin, Elsner, Frank   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Voluntary Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and the Goals of Medicine

, 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
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide assistance in Germany: A protocol for a multi-perspective qualitative study to explore the current practice.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundSuicide assistance is as a complex process comprising a series of stages, ranging from initial consultations with patients about end-of-life options to counselling bereaved family members.
Sven Schwabe, Franziska A Herbst, Stephanie Stiel, Nils Schneider   +3 more
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Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Language Lost in MAiD

Canadian 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
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Conflicts of Conscience: Hospice and Assisted Suicide

, 1995
Proposals to legalize assisted suicide challenge hospice's identity and integrity. In the wake of Measure 16, Oregon hospice programs must develop practical policies to balance traditional commitments not to hasten death and not to abandon patients with ...
Matthews, Pam, Campbell, Courtney S., Hare, Jan   +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