Malaria drugs could help to combat cancer 2017

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are drugs which are used to deal with malaria, however a brand new review shows that they'll have any...

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ACHIEVING A PEACEFUL DEATH: What We've Learned in 30 Years, Including Dementia

Check out this end-of-life policy conference on November 4, 2017 that celebrates the 30-year anniversary of the Hemlock Society of San Dieg...

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End-of-Life Care Patient Decision Aids - Call for Submissions for Certification

The Washington State Health Care Authority is now accepting submissions to certify a third round of patient decision aids.  The call is for ...

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Defendants to Physically Examine Jahi McMath to Confirm Brain Death

In late September 2017, five defendants and the plaintiff filed case management statements in Jahi McMath's medical malpractice lawsuit...

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Minnesota Fall Aging Conference

Join me later this month at the Minnesota Fall Aging Conference .

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Michigan May Join "Red Light" States that Prohibit Stopping Life-Sustaining Treatments without Consent

On Thursday, Michigan state Senator John Proos introduced a bill that would make Michigan the latest in a growing list of states that prohib...

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Choosing Death (new 6 min video)

NBC News Left Field has produced an excellent six-minute video with End of Life Choices New York about the need for medical aid in dying. C...

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Medical Futility Case in Alberta - Darlene Crayne

Several reports have indicated that Canadian ICU clinicians have generally "caved in" to family demands for potentially inappropr...

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Call for Abstracts - International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation (ICCEC 2018)

Oxford Abstract submission is now open for the 14th International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation (ICCEC 2018), a leading intern...

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Faith and Morality and Medical Aid in Dying

Come to Hamline University on Thursday, October 5 for "Faith and Morality and Medical Aid in Dying." Rev. Dr. Ignacio Castuera (Tr...

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Minnesota Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) - Lessons Learned in Oregon and Colorado

Join me this Friday, September 29 for "Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) - Lessons Learned in Oregon and Colorado." The purpose of this ...

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Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Texas "Medical Futility" Law

On Friday, a Harris County, Texas trial court rejected a constitutional challenge to the Texas Advance Directives Act. Judge Bill Burke sai...

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UK Drops Judicial Permission Requirement to Stop CANH for PVS patients

Justice Peter Jackson In contrast to most Western jurisdictions, families and clinicians in the UK needed court permission withdraw nutritio...

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International Conference on End of Life Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice (ICEL3) - Belgium 2019

I have been to the first and second International Conference on End of Life Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice (ICEL1 and ICEL2).  Both incl...

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New Law Limits Doctors' Ability to Invoke DNR without Patient Consent

Todd Ackerman has a solid story in the Houston Chronicle on the background and impact of SB11 in Texas. "Beginning next April, the rig...

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Make Clinicians Feel Legally Safe to Do the Right Thing

I am just back from a marvelous conference on end-of-life law and policy in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Interestingly, the citadel in Halifax (s...

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New Symposium on VSED

The Seattle Journal for Social Justice has published several articles flowing from  our October 2016 conference on VSED (Voluntarily Stoppi...

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Mitchell Hamline Health Law Students Facilitate Advance Care Planning

While I am in Nova Scotia, Mitchell Hamline health law students were in Hastings, Minnesota at the Dakota County Judicial Center with the Mo...

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Wisconsin Legislation on Rights for the Terminally Ill

Wisconsin, not exactly the state you would expect to consider legislation  extending new rights to the terminally ill.  And you would be mos...

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State Constitutional Right to Aid in Dying

In his  concurring opinion in Myers v. Schneiderman , Justice Garcia observed that "not a single plaintiff has asserted a successful c...

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