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India. These guidelines for passive euthanasia—i.e. the decision to withdraw treatment, nutrition, or water—establish that the decision to discontinue life...

Life support comprises the treatments and techniques performed in an emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs....

Competent patients or their surrogates can decide to withdraw treatments, usually after the treatments are found ineffective, painful, or burdensome. The...

one gave written evidence only. Doctors from GOSH testified that withdrawing treatment complied with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health guidelines...

consciousness and a legal ruling in November 1992 allowed doctors to withdraw his treatment at the request of his family, as there had been no sign of improvement...

Administration (FDA) in 1996 for the treatment of dysautonomia and orthostatic hypotension. In August 2010, the FDA proposed withdrawing this approval because the...

varenicline, cytisine, nortriptyline, and clonidine and psychedelics. Treatments other than medication, such as increased exercise, can also reduce nicotine...

Canadian medical ethics case concerning whether a hospital may withdraw life-sustaining treatments perceived to be futile without the consent of the patient's...

result in people withdrawing from stress and avoiding opportunities for failure. In more severe cases of dysthymia, people may withdraw from daily activities...

with the support of her family, successfully sued the hospital for withdrawing treatment. Numerous states have adopted laws restricting the ability of doctors...

Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system,...

1000 infants, but without taking into account the mortality due to withdrawing treatment for critically ill children in respect of which there existed no...

up is the patient's right to deny or withdraw treatment. Cases in which the patient rejected or withdrew treatment were then unheard of and went against...

Beginning and End of Life, ed. by M.N Cauchi. 2002 – 'Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment: Ethics at the Bedside', in Bioethical Issues at the Beginning and...

IVF is a type of assisted reproductive technology used for infertility treatment, gestational surrogacy, and, in combination with pre-implantation genetic...

Alder Hey applied to the High Court to withdraw parental rights from Alfie's parents and to withdraw treatment by ventilation. The case was heard in public...

Substance Abuse Treatment. 8 (1–2): 19–28. doi:10.1016/0740-5472(91)90023-4. PMID 1675688. Benzodiazepines: how they work & how to withdraw (aka The Ashton...

presents the BBC News at Six for the first time since announcing his treatment for colorectal cancer has ended. It is his first broadcast since April...

through frequent job changes, as they become easily bored and may prefer withdrawing from frustration (instead of facing it). Because they tend to crave novelty...

claimed that the hospital would withdraw treatment the next day, and that all 'legal avenues' to continue treatment had been exhausted. 6 August – Battersbee's...