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[|**Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: Killing or Caring?(Review)**]

Financial drain on one's loved ones--such fear lends strength to the movement for euthanasia and for physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Support for euthanasia/PAS has been spurred on by the Hemlock Society, ... [|Read more]

Recently, anti-euthanasia forces had a very close call... [|Read more]
 * [|Euthanasia Advocates Make Strong Push In New Zealand, But Come Up Short.] **

[|**Abortion**]

The abortion debate asks whether it can be morally right to terminate a pregnancy before normal childbirth. Some people think that abortion is always wrong. Some think that abortion is right when the mother's life is at risk. Others think that there is a range of circumstances in which abortion is morally acceptable.

[|**Contraception**]

What do philosophy and religions say about contraception? Is it an issue of human rights? Is there ever a duty to use contraception?

[|**Euthanasia**] Euthanasia is the deliberate killing of a person for the benefit of that person. In most cases euthanasia is carried out because the person who dies asks for it, but there are cases called euthanasia where a person can't make such a request

[|**Gene test determines risk of kidney complications**]

Genetic differences may underlie the tendency of some individuals to suffer kidney complications after cardiac surgery. Testing for a gene variant might identify those most at risk, according to new research.

[|**Surgery helps the most obese**]

People who are very overweight can expect significant health gains by having gastric bypass surgery, according to a new study. This happens even when they remain obese, suggesting that weight loss is not the only impact of surgery.

[|**Weight loss drug comes to Britain**]

A drug clinically proven to aid weight loss has finally been launched in the UK. Community pharmacists will play an important role in ensuring that orlistat 60 mg is offered to those who can benefit most.

[|**Exercise may help in heart failure**]

Patients with heart failure may benefit from exercise, according to a new study. But the health and wellbeing gains are modest, at best, and applicable only to certain patients.

[|**Religious coping linked to more aggressive terminal cancer treatment**]

Patients who turn to religion to help deal with advanced cancer make different medical decisions compared with those who do not. The religious patient is more likely to opt for treatment to keep them alive which sometimes leads to a poorer quality of death and distress for friends and family.

[|**New botox proves its worth**] A new type of botox can help approve the appearance of forehead wrinkles, according to a study. The findings will help guide the choices of those opting for cosmetic surgery.

[|**New Therapies Mean HIV Patients Gain Longer Lives, Face New Challenges**]

New HIV therapies have prolonged lives and improved health for patients with HIV, but the treatments have also brought the longer-term effects of the disease into sharper ...

[|**Genome-wide Insights Into Patterns Of The World's Human Population Structures**]

Through sophisticated statistical analysis and advanced computer simulations, researchers are learning in greater detail about the genomic signatures of human population structures around the world.

[|**Stem Cell Transplant In Mouse Embryo Yields Heart Protection In Adulthood**]

Stem cells play a role in heart muscle rejuvenation by attracting cells from the body that develop into heart muscle cells. They have been successfully used to halt or reverse cardiac injury ...

[|**End Of The Line For Existing Stem Cell Research?**]

Time is short for scientists to respond to the call for comments on the National Institutes of Health proposed guidelines for the use of human embryonic stem cell lines and their eligibility for ...

[|**New Tissue Scaffold Regrows Cartilage And Bone**]

MIT engineers and colleagues have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints.

[|**Swine Flu Update: At Least 18 Countries Affected; Human-to-Pig Infection Reported In Canada**]

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that as of 1600 GMT, 3 May 2009, 18 countries have officially reported 898 ...

[|**Pandemic Warning System Keys On 'Human Factors'**]

Researchers are proposing a new system that would warn of an impending pandemic before the first case of disease emerged in a given population by detecting subtle signals in human ... >

[|**Scientists Shed Light On Inner Workings Of Human Embryonic Stem Cells**]

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a significant discovery in understanding the way human embryonic stem cells function.

[|**Growing Old with Autism: The Struggles to Come**]

It is estimated that 1 out of every 150 American children is living with autism. And yet little attention is paid to what happens when they grow up. A personal account of the silent struggle of adult autistics

[|**How to Prepare for a Pandemic**]

The H1N1 virus may be fizzling out for now, but new diseases will always threaten us -- unless we strengthen our global warning system

[|**Rush Hour**]

Instead of turning to greasy convenience food or cheap takeout, take the opportunity to get some fresh air and enjoy some fine food while saving money on your grocery bill.

[|**Food pricing may help control weight**]

A new article published in The Milbank Quarterly explores how food prices can affect weight outcomes and reveals that pricing interventions can have a significant effect on obesity rates.

[|**New Drugs Have Allure, Not Track Record**]

Recently, one of my residents told me about a patient with bipolar disorder whose psychiatrist had prescribed an exotic cocktail of drugs — a sedative, a new mood stabilizer and the latest antipsychotic medication.

[|**Unemployment May Be Hazardous to Your Health**]

A large study finds that laid off workers are more likely than the employed to develop health problems.

[|**Flu Overhyped? Some Say So**]

The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fear-mongering hype. But that's not how public health officials see it.

[|**Productivity Takes a Hit From Obesity, Diabetes**]

Obese workers with diabetes are less productive than their normal-weight co-workers, says a U.S. study.

[|**Study links cigarette changes to rising lung risk**]

It may be riskier on the lungs to smoke cigarettes today than it was a few decades ago — at least in the U.S., says new research that blames changes in cigarette design for fueling a certain type of lung cancer.

[|**UK study: Postponing retirement may delay dementia**]

Working a few years beyond retirement could help stave off Alzheimer's disease, according to a new British study published Monday. Experts from King's College London analyzed data from more than 1,300 people with dementia. They considered factors including education, employment and retirement.

[|**Gene Transfer Technology May Lead To HIV Vaccine**]

A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers.

[|**Health Undervalued In Reproductive Rights Debate**]

A review of recent reproductive rights cases shows that judges may shortchange women's health when it is pitted against other legal interests, such as religious ...

[|**India and Africa’s satellite links set to expand**]

An ambitious project to link up African Union countries with Indian hospitals and universities via satellite will accelerate this year after a pilot project in Ethiopia proved successful.

[|**EUTHANASIA.; Lurana W. Sheldon Replies to the Critics of Her Views**]

The word "compassion" has been used frequently in the letters upon euthanasia and appears to form the keynote of most of the recent hysterical denunciations.

[|**Euthanasia for Babies?**]

One sure way to start a lively argument at a dinner party is to raise the question Are we humans getting more decent over time? Optimists about moral progress will point out that the last few centuries have seen, in the West at least, such welcome developments as the abolition of slavery and of legal segregation, the expansion of freedoms (of religion, speech and press), better treatment of women and a gradual reduction of violence, notably murder, in everyday life.

[|**Arrests Draw New Attention to Assisted Suicide**]

Arrests of officials in the Final Exit Network raised questions about whether it helped in some 200 suicides.


 * [|Preparing to End Her Life, While Protecting Another] **

Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis, wants the British government to assure her that should she decide to end her life, her husband could assist her without fear of prosecution.

[|**Death Ends Coma Case That Set Off Furor in Italy**]

The death of 38-year-old Eluana Englaro ended a case that divided the nation and ignited fierce clashes among Italian leaders and the Vatican.

[|**TV Broadcast of an Assisted Suicide Intensifies a Contentious Debate in Britain**]

Broadcast on Sky Television, the film, “Right to Die?” is said to be the first broadcast on British television of the moment of death in a voluntary euthanasia case.

[|**Italy Moves to Keep Alive a Woman in a Coma**]

The move circumvents a high court decision and ignores a warning from the Italian president that he would refuse to sign the decree.


 * [|Italy: High Court Allows Removal of Feeding Tube] **

Italy’s highest court ruled that the father of a woman in a persistent vegetative state could remove his daughter’s feeding tube, ending a case that has divided the country.

[|**Pope Seeks Greater Role for Catholics in Europe on Policy Issues**]

Pope Benedict XVI is looking to reconquer Europe, if not in numbers, then at the political table.

[|**In Tijuana, a Market for Death in a Bottle**]

One contraband product trumps all others: a drug popular with people seeking a painless way to end their lives.

[|**Assisted Suicide of Healthy 79-Year-Old Renews German Debate on Right to Die**]

A woman’s desire to avoid life in a nursing home forces a country to confront the thorny ethical issue and casts an assisted-suicide advocate as Germany’s Jack Kevorkian.

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**__The Aids Crisis__**

A very useful BBC Webpage with a lot of links and information. [|Aids Indepth]

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