By Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. People with severe brain damage are difficult to diagnose reliably,...
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British Supreme Court: Families can decide to starve brain damaged patients to death
"The Supreme Court has set a dangerous precedent" By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children The Supreme Court has ruled that doctors can withdraw food and fluid from brain-damaged patients without going to court - if the patient's family is in...
Ethically sound stem cells provide “meaningful” recover in stroke victims
By Dave Andrusko A study published in the journal Stroke “is creating significant buzz in the neuroscience community because the results appear to contradict a core belief about brain damage — that it is permanent and irreversible,” according to Ariana Eunjung Cha of...
Taylor Hale–the girl who beat death
By Dave Andrusko Taylor Hale is 17 years old and, like who knows how many other young people, is about to graduate from high school next week-- Waukee High School in Iowa, to be specific. She’s struggled some in school, particularly math, and knows that college will...
Parents’ request to euthanize toddler turned down, boy undergoes successful brain surgery
By Dave Andrusko Thanks to the generosity of an unnamed party, little Xiong Junyi, from Anhui, east China, who suffered severe brain damage in an accident at his father's workplace, underwent life-saving brain surgery last week. Xiong somehow got stuck on a...
Joan Rivers will never be a carrot
By Wesley J. Smith Whatever the future holds for Joan Rivers, who may have experienced brain damage during surgery, she will always be an exceptional human being deserving of equal rights and perceived moral value. To put it another way, contrary to some...