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By Dave Andrusko A fascinating and troubling study that appears in the current issue of the Journal of Neurotrauma suggest a substantial proportion of patients with traumatic brain injury may have survived “and achieved at least partial independence” had not...
By Michael Cook Editor’s note. This appeared at BioEdge and is reposted with permission. A British couple has won a court battle with a National Health Service [NHS ] trust over the death of their new-born baby in 2012. They alleged that staff at Darlington Memorial...
“Eerily similar” cases, shades of Alfie Evans By Dave Andrusko In an incredible coincidence two families are fighting to keep their sons on life support at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. CHOP has declared both Areen Chakrabarti and Jayden Auyeung brain-dead and...
By Texas Right to Life Pro-Life Texans have long known the danger of giving hospital administrators power over life and death decisions. Under the anti-Life Texas 10-Day-Law, countless vulnerable Texans have been denied life-sustaining treatment against their written...
By Dave Andrusko When a whistleblower who worked at the hospital nursery for premature babies at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel, felt hospital officials were not taking her accusations seriously, she turned to police with a story of a...
By Kathy Ostrowski, Legislative Director, Kansans for Life Charlie Gard, who suffers from a rare, life-limiting chromosomal condition that weakens his muscles, will turn 9 months on Thursday, in the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) of London. But the raging battle...
By Wesley J. Smith There is a fight in the UK about whether to keep a seriously ill baby on life support or put her in palliative care to die. Typically of our age, the idea that a person has a life not worth living may really be about discrimination against the...
By Wesley J. Smith Texas has a medical futility–what I call Futile Care Theory–law permitting doctors to remove wanted life-support that works from a patient based on their views about quality of life. Before that is done, patients/families are supposed to...
By Dave Andrusko The family of Marlise Machado Muñoz, the pregnant woman who collapsed from an apparent pulmonary embolism November 26 , filed suit in Tarrant County civil court Tuesday, requesting the court to issue an order requiring John Peter Smith Hospital...
By Dave Andrusko Jahi McMath remains on a ventilator today as her family continues its frantic struggle to find a doctor who will insert feeding and breath tubes into the 13-year-old who has been diagnosed as brain-dead. One part of the complex network of...