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Update 65: Volume 27, Number 1–Year 2013, Number 1 (View as PDF)
Belgian doctors take legal euthanasia practice to new lows, without sanctions
An elastic law
Twin brothers euthanized
More evidence of the slippery slope
Eleven states targeted for legal doctor-assisted suicide in 2013
Vermont
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maryland & California
New Hampshire & Kansas
Hawaii
Montana & New Mexico
Oregon’s 2012 assisted-suicide report: more deaths & unknowns
Refusal of basic care
Not an isolated case
Medical treatment or basic care
Necessity of principles and policies
Some hospice policies present obstacles for patients
AMA issues policy on “divided loyalty”
Study identifies common elder abuse injuries
News briefs from home & abroad
Oregon
Quebec
Great Britain
Japan
Update 66: Volume 27, Number 2–Year 2013, Number 2 (View as PDF)
Care or suicide? It’s all available at Washington’s “full service” cancer center
Death with Dignity Program
SCCA’s statistics
State legislatures deal with doctor-assisted suicide measures
Connecticut
Montana
Vermont
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Kansas
Hawaii
New developments in Minnesota’s case against the Final Exit Network
Texas Struggles with Its Futile Care Beast by Wesley J. Smith
Study finds diagnostic errors common in primary care
Researchers develop test to see if older patients will be alive in 10 years
Social isolation is deadly for older men & women
Bioethicist says donor’s death is insignificant in harvesting organs
News briefs from home and abroad
Canada
Ireland
Australia
Belgium
Update 67: Volume 27, Number 3–Year 2013, Number 3 View as PDF
Vermont lawmakers enact an assisted-suicide law devoid of patient protections
What the Vermont law says and does not say
Vermont hospitals opting out of Act 39
Patient protection services available
Assisted suicide’s “collateral damage” evident in Oregon
Maine’s legislators reject prescribed-suicide bill
Status of assisted-suicide bills that are still pending
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Hawaii
Kansas
Washington surpasses Oregon in 2012 assisted-suicide deaths
Quebec tries new strategy to legalize euthanasia
Dutch doctors propose killing disabled babies so parents don’t suffer
Britain’s Lord Falconer tables “Assisted Dying” bill
New CPR technique greatly improves chances for recovery
Study finds improved CPR outcomes for elderly patients in US hospitals
Elderly patients with DNR orders are more likely to die of surgical complications
News briefs from home & abroad
New Hampshire
Australia
Switzerland
Great Britain
Update 68:Volume 27, Number 4–Year 2013, Number 4 View as PDF
Outrage mounts over Belgium’s euthanasia law and its toll on the country
Recent cases go beyond “limits” of the law
Doctors affirm the profession’s rejection of prescribed death
NEJM Poll
World Medical Association
National Medical Associations
Canadian courts issue 2 landmark decisions that protect patients’ rights
Cuthbertson v. Rasouli
Carter v. Canada
Bureaucracy Lives! How many experts does it take to advise a dying patient?
Dutch report skyrocketing numbers of euthanasia and assisted-suicide deaths
News briefs from home & abroad
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Australia
New Zealand