Minnesota Palliative Care Advisory Council - Call for Applications Unknown 06.04 Add Comment Edit In the 2017 legislative session, the Minnesota legislature was one of about a dozen nationwide to create a Palliative Care Advisory Council ... Read More
Texas Legislature Special Session Tackles DNR Orders and Medical Futility Unknown 16.28 Add Comment Edit The Texas Legislature is holding a special session that starts today. The session, which follows a five-month regular session that concluded... Read More
The Ethics of Treatment for Charlie Gard: Resources for Students/Media Unknown 06.23 Add Comment Edit My colleagues over at the University of Oxford Practical Ethics Blog have collected together below some of the materials on the Charlie Ga... Read More
Innovation for End-of-Life Communication in the ICU Unknown 02.30 Add Comment Edit A recent article in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine offers great advice on communication in the ICU. This i... Read More
Understanding Your ICU Stay: Information for Patient and Families Unknown 01.30 Add Comment Edit The Society of Critical Care Medicine has a great new guide for patients and families: Understanding Your ICU Stay. This should help impr... Read More
Banks v. Santaniello - New Futility Case Unknown 02.00 Add Comment Edit The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has just granted defendants' motion to dismiss a medical futility lawsuit... Read More
Jahi McMath - Evidence that She Is Now Alive Considered by Court Today Unknown 10.38 Add Comment Edit Later today (California time), is a hearing on the Motion for Summary Adjudication of Plaintiff Jahi McMath's First Cause of Action for ... Read More