Health Care Issues

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Research

Rise of a Deadly TB Reveals a Global System in Crisis (Mar 07) 
Doctors' Ties to Drug Makers (Mar 07) 
Indonesia’s Avian Flu Holdout (Feb 07)

In Antipsychotics, Newer Not Better (Oct 06)
Alzheimer’s Drugs Offer No Help, Study Finds (Oct 05)
A Career That Has Mirrored Psychiatry's Twisting Path (May 06)
In Heart Disease, the Focus Shifts to Women (Ap 06)
Hope for HIV microbicide breakthrough: scientists (Ap 06)
F.D.A. Dismisses Medical Benefit From Marijuana (Ap 06)
Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer (Mar 06)
Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds (Feb 06)
Women should be able to donate their eggs -HFEA (Feb 06)
Rotavirus Drugs Deemed Safe and Effective (Jan 06)
US stops trial of interrupted HIV treatment (Jan 06)

Companies Facing Ethical Issue as Drugs Are Tested Overseas (Mar 04)
Call to Check "Unethical" Drug Trials in India (Feb 04)

Autonomy, Truth Telling, and Confidentiality

Warning in UK over privacy of 50m patient files (Nov 06)
When Don’t Smoke Means Do (Nov 06)
The Package May Say Healthy, but This Grocer Begs to Differ (Nov 06)
Brain's Selfishness Spot Revealed (Oct 06)
A crisis of conscience: Faith drives (Jul 06)
Milking It: Moms find industrial chemicals in their breast milk an outrage -- and a call to action (May 06)
Surgical Device Poses a Rare but Serious Peril (Mar 06)
Doctors Object to Gathering of Drug Data (May 06)
Seducing the Medical Profession (Feb 06)
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Measure (Feb 06)

Young, Assured and Playing Pharmacist to Friends (Nov 05)
Medical Professionals Bending Ethics for 'War on Terror,' Expert Charges (Aug 05)

Fags and fiction (Jul 04)
Operating in a Vacuum (May 04)
Revealed: how food firms target children (May 04)

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AIDS

WHO calls for massive expansion in HIV testing (May 07) 
Race Against Time - World AIDS Day Speech by Barak Obama (Dec 06)
Circumcision Halves H.I.V. Risk, U.S. Agency Finds (Dec 06)
Scientists say malaria fuels AIDS spread in Africa (Dec 06)
Traditional Ways Spread AIDS in Africa, Experts Say (Nov 06)
Clinton’s Foundation Brokers Deal on AIDS Drugs (Nov 06)
Five Nations to Tax Airfare to Raise Funds for AIDS Drugs (Sep 06)
U.S. Agency Urges Regular H.I.V. Tests (Sep 06)
AIDS virus hides out in "accomplice" cells (Aug 06)
Clinton Makes Up for Lost Time in Battling AIDS (Aug 06)
Circumcision may stop millions of HIV deaths: study (Jul 06)
A new plague pill (Jul 06)
Ideology Only (May 06)
High Hopes for AIDS Therapy (Ap 06)
Free Trade and AIDS Drugs (Mar 06) 
Overhaul Urged for Laws on AIDS Tests and Data (Feb 06)
Palestinian Patient Receives Care in Israel (Feb 06)
Behavior changed AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe: study (Feb 06)
China bans discrimination against AIDS sufferers (Feb 06)
In a twist of fate, Olympic spirit is in the medals money (Feb 06)
Clinton, Australia launch tri-nation AIDS campaign (Feb 06)
Clinton in Deal to Cut AIDS Treatment Costs (Jan 06)
Mutation trades AIDS protection for West Nile risk (Jan 06)

Nigeria says to provide free AIDS drugs from 2006 (Dec 05)
Along India's Roads AIDS Grows (Dec 05)
Young lives protected by two small tablets (Dec 05) 
Record new HIV cases in '05: UN (Nov 05) 
What? Condoms Can Prevent AIDS? No Way! (Aug 05)
Fighting AIDS Behind Bars (Jul 05)
$1.23 Per Person Could Save Six Million Children Each Year - Study (Jun 05)
U.S. Is Close to Eliminating AIDS in Infants, Officials Say (Jan 05)

AIDS in India (Jul 04)
Asians told to use condoms or face HIV explosion (Jul 04)
Early Tests for U.S. in Its Global Fight on AIDS (Jul 04)
South Africa Rejects Use of AIDS Drug for Women (Jul 04)
Prostitutes protest AIDS-drug test (Jul 04)
UK policy on Aids leaves US isolated (Jul 04)
Mandatory Testing Bolsters Botswana in Combating AIDS (Jun 04)
AIDS in Africa: Why Not Urge Fidelity? (Jun 04)
HIV carrier convicted in landmark ruling (Mar 04) 
Plan to Battle AIDS Worldwide Is Falling Short (Mar 04)
African Aids drug plan faces collapse (Mar 04)
Pop Divas Draw Black Teenagers and Women to AIDS Awareness (Mar 04)
Treatment in Malawi (Feb 04)

Use of Generic Drugs in Guatemala (Nov 03)
Aids becoming 'a teenage disease' (Oct 03)
AIDS Patients in Zambia Face Stark Choices (Oct 03)
Disclosure Law (2000)

Race, Gender, and Medicine

Germany to Restrict Smoking, Joining Other Nations in Europe (Dec 06)
Diabetes an epidemic in Asia: S. Korean scientists (Nov 06)
In Europe It’s Fish Oil After Heart Attacks, but Not in U.S. (Oct 06)
New hope raised in battle against drug-resistant bacteria (Sep 06)
Fat Factors (Aug 06) 
F.D.A. Approves Implantable Contraceptive (Jul 06)
Obesity Surgery Often Leads to Complications, Study Says (Jul 06)
Breast-Fed Babies May Have a Leg Up in the Battle Against Childhood Obesity (Jun 06)
Therapy can help stress-related infertility: study (Jun 06)
Men: The Weaker Sex (Jun 06)
Hepatitis Risk for East Asians in New York (May 06)
Drug industry spends millions on US states: report (Ap 06)
Beyond Swollen Limbs, a Disease's Hidden Agony (Ap 06)
Recourse Grows Slim for Immigrants in US Who Fall Ill (Mar 06)
Silent Struggle: A New Theory of Pregnancy (Mar 06)
Cocaine can cause major stomach problems: surgeon (Feb 06)
With Scenes of Blood and Pain, Ads Battle Methamphetamine in Montana (Feb 06)
Vaccine Against Diarrhea-Causing Virus Is Approved (Feb 06)
Ritalin heart attacks warning urged after 51 deaths in US (Feb 06)
Now Prozac Battles Dark Dreams That Khmer Rouge Left (Feb 06)
2 Arthritis Drugs Are Found to Be Ineffective (Feb 06)
Superbug deaths in UK up by nearly a quarter in year (Feb 06)
When Trust in Doctors Erodes, Other Treatments Fill the Void (Feb 06)
Why Doctors So Often Get It Wrong (Feb 06)

Gain Reported in Combating Ovary Cancer (Jan 06)
Vitamin D could help pregnant women-study (Jan 06)
Brain Protein May Be Linked to Depression (Jan 06)
Report Casts Fresh Doubts on Prostate Cancer Testing (Jan 06)
Diabetes and Its Awful Toll Quietly Emerge as a Crisis (Jan 06)
Living at an Epicenter of Diabetes, Defiance and Despair (Jan 06)
In the Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay (Jan 06)
East Meets West, Adding Pounds and Peril (Jan 06)
Dogs Excel on Smell Test to Find Cancer (Jan 06)
Inventor develops anti-malaria wristwatch (Jan 06)
Newer flu drugs more effective than old: study (Jan 06)
STMicro to market chip to detect bird flu in humans (Jan 06)
Drug Makers Get a Warning From the U.N. Malaria Chief (Jan 06)
UK cost watchdog backs limited Alzheimer drug use (Jan 06)
Potent Mexican Meth Floods In as States Curb Domestic Variety (Jan 06)
U.S. study shows stress results in stronger boys (Jan 06)
Can you catch cancer? (Jan 06)
California Puts Passive Smoke on Toxic List (Jan 06)

Children of 12 and pregnant women to be allowed nicotine patches (Dec 05) 
Sick and Vulnerable, Workers Fear for Health and Their Jobs (Dec 05)
Warning Issued for Birth-Control Patch (Nov 05)
Is There a Link Between Stress and Cancer? (Nov 05) 
When the Doctor Is in, but You Wish He Weren't (Nov 05) 
Breast cancer survival rates improve (Oct 05)
Study Confirms Value of Mammograms (Oct 05)
When Health Insurance Is Not a Safeguard (Oct 05)
Treated for Illness, Then Lost in Labyrinth of Bills (Oct 05)
Nightmare for African Women: Birthing Injury and Little Help (Sep 05)
Girls abused by dates at higher STD risk (Aug 05)
Court grants equal rights to same-sex parents (Aug 05)
Alone in Illness, Seeking Steady Arm to Lean On (Aug 05)
Sick and Scared, and Waiting, Waiting, Waiting (Aug 05)
In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift From Person to Patient (Aug 05)
Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road (Aug 05)
Discrimination in health care for Blacks in USA (Aug 05)

Antidepressant Seen as Effective in Treatment of Adolescents (Jun 04)
Genital Cutting Shows Signs of Losing Favor in Africa (Jun 04)
California: Immigrants outlive U.S.-born citizens (May 04)
Indian Boy Better Fed Than Girl: Survey (May 04)
He Harms/She Harms: A Distinction With Real Difference (Mar 04)
Action Urged on Diseases With Dangers for Women (Feb 04)

Doctors warn of teen health 'timebomb' (Dec 03)
New Drug Regimen Greatly Cuts Risk of Recurring Breast Cancer (Oct 03)

Genetic Control 

U.S. company says grows embryo-safe stem cells (Jun 07)

Drug firms to get part of stem cell grant pool (Dec 06)
In Competitive Marketplace, Asian Egg Donors in Demand (Nov 06) 
IVF experts recommend single embryo transfer (Oct 06)
Couples Cull Embryos to Halt Heritage of Cancer (Sep 06)
U.S. firm makes 'ethical' embryo stem cells (Aug 06)
Stem Cell Bill Seen as a Qualified Boon for Research (Jul 06)
Hawking attacks EU stem cell 'fudge' (Jul 06)
US company claims to make stem cells from testes (Ap 06)
Mice cells shown to mimic embryonic stem cells (Mar 06) 
One more weapon in war on cystic fibrosis (Mar 06)
Scientists grow stem-cell lines in new medium (Jan 06)
Gene Increases Diabetes Risk, Scientists Find (Jan 06)

The Problem With an Almost-Perfect Genetic World (Nov 05)
Scientists Devise New Stem Cell Methods to Ease Concerns (Oct 05)
Cloning plan poses new ethical dilemma (Jul 05)
Genetic Find Stirs Debate on Race-Based Medicine (Jul 05)
Embryos cloned from eggs matured in laboratory (Jun 05)
Not on Faith Alone: Allowing Stem Cell Research (Jun 05)

Britain Grants License to Make Human Embryos for Stem Cells (Aug 04)
Scientists Press UN to Allow Stem Cell Research (Jun 04)
Insulin Cells Are Self-Renewing, U.S. Study Finds (May 04)
UK opens pioneer cell bank (May 04)
German Doctors Say They Create New Stem-Cell Method (May 04)
Bush Policy on Human Stem Cells Faces New Challenges (Mar 04)
Embryo cloning hailed as 'major step forward' (Feb 04)
We have nothing to fear from the cloning of human embryos (Feb 04)

Researchers Use Patient's Cells to Renew Heart (Nov 03)

Reproductive Control

Genetic Testing + Abortion = ??? (May 07)

Policy on Morning-After Pill Upsets Chile (Dec 06) 
Nicaraguan President Signs Abortion Ban (Nov 06) 
Nicaragua's Total Ban On Abortion Spurs Critics (Nov 06)
FDA Approves OTC Sales of Plan B (Aug 06)
Blanco signs law that would ban abortions in Louisiana (Jun 06)
Democrats Seek Changes to Abortion Bill (Jul 06)
Catholic church in UK urges review of abortion laws (Jun 06)
Use of Contraception Drops, Slowing Decline of Abortion Rate (May 06)
What teens in the UK really think about sex (May 06)
Colombian Court Legalizes Some Abortions (May 06)
Contra-Contraception (May 06)
Some Doctors Voice Worry Over Abortion Pills' Safety (Ap 06)
Wanted: A Few Good Sperm (Mar 06)
South Dakota passes abortion ban (Feb 06) 
Abstinence-only sex ed is ethically indefensible (Jan 06)
Justices Reaffirm Emergency Access to Abortion (Jan 06)
Mother in UK loses abortion 'right to know' case (Jan 06)

Push to Loosen Abortion Laws in Latin America (Dec 05)
Warning Issued for Birth-Control Patch (Nov 05)
Secret abortion advice 'undermines family life' (Nov 05)
Condom labels should say more, FDA advises (Nov 05)
Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly (Sep 05)
Fertility ships to offer a way out to couples hit by tougher UK rules (Sep 05)
In New Court, Roe May Stand, So Foes Look to Limit Its Scope (Jul 05)
Doctors reject lowering of abortion limit (Jun 05)

Women have no choice now but to halt this backlash (Jul 04)
New guidelines on abortion (Jul 04)
In New Tests for Fetal Defects, Agonizing Choices for Parents (Jun 04)
U.S. Rules Morning-After Pill Can't Be Sold Over the Counter (May 04)

Premature Birth Rate Ups S.C. Care Costs (Dec 03)
Fetal Brains Suffer Badly From Effects of Alcohol (Nov 03)

Surrogacy and Egg Donation Law in California (Mar 01)

Scarce Resources 

In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (Dec 06) 
Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa’s Future (Dec 06)
A Joint Attack on Many Perils of Africa's Young (Dec 06) 
Latin America's In-Prison Diseases Spilling into General Population (Sep 06)
Mosquito's lust for sugar can fight malaria (Sep 06)
Tobacco May Kill 1 Billion This Century (Jul 06)
Global bazaar in body parts (Jul 06)
Hospital Chiefs Get Paid for Advice on Selling (Jul 06)
Taking the Global Pulse - Threats and Solutions (Jul 06)
Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Deepens (Jul 06)
Too Many Doctors in the House (Jul 06)
Antibiotics: How Long Is Long Enough? (Jun 06)
If It's Good for Philip Morris, Can It Also Be Good for Public Health? (Jun 06)
U.S. Plan to Lure Nurses May Hurt Poor Nations (May 06)
Patients seeking transplants turn to China (Ap 06)
Study Reports on Drawbacks of Replacing Implanted Heart Devices (Ap 06)
Rumor, Fear and Fatigue Hinder Final Push to End Polio (Mar 06)
Preventable Disease Blinds Poor in Third World (Mar 06)
Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease (Mar 06)
Smoking Deaths Will More than Double as Girls Take to Tobacco: Researchers (Feb 06)
Medical safety net shrinks with less charity care (Mar 06)
HK bird flu virus linked to S.Korea 2004 strain (Feb 06)
Raising daily fruit and veg intake 'can ward off strokes' (Jan 06)
Teaching children to eat healthy food (Feb 06)

California administrative costs for health care (Nov 05)
Top birdflu scientist warns against antiviral abuse (Sep 05)
Billions for Vaccines for the Poor to Be Raised in Bond Markets (Sep 05)
An Economy Raised on Pork (Sep 05)
Bird flu drug rendered useless (Jun 05)
'My machine is saving lives globally' (May 05)

Surgery ban unfair, say doctors (Nov 05) 
Scientists pin hopes on worm eggs to fight diseases (Nov 05)
For a Retainer, Lavish Care by 'Boutique Doctors' (Oct 05)
Ambulance Costs for Transporting Alcoholics in San Francisco (Oct 05)
Search for Transplant Organs Becomes a Web Free-for-All (Sep 05)
Selling organs should be legal (Aug 05)
Machine is saving lives globally (May 05)

Good Samaritan: California Law (Dec 04)
Brokering Organ Transplants on the Internet Raises Ethical Issues (Oct 04)
Illinois to Help Residents Buy Drugs From Canada, and Afar (Aug 04)
America's Failing Health (Aug 04)
Full wards and staff shortages help to spread superbugs (Jul 04)
Revealed: black market trade in mumps vaccine (Jul 04)
An Exodus of African Nurses Puts Infants and the Ill in Peril (Jul 04)
Rights Group Seeks to Halt Africa's Losses in Health Care (Jul 04)
Web site gives tips on Canadian drugs (Jun 04)
Arsenic Poisoning Sparks Health Crisis in Indian State (Jun 04)
Health Care in the USA - A Second Opinion (Jun 04)
Agencies Turn to Herbal Drug in Treating Resistant Malaria (May 04)
Pharmacists to sell cholesterol-busting drugs (May 04)
'People trafficking' propping up NHS in UK (May 04)
The killing season: new docs in the UK (May 04)
Thousands may be vCJD carriers (May 04)
Tracking the Sale of a Kidney on a Path of Poverty and Hope (May 04)
Make Peace With Pot (Apr 04)
Major Drop in Measles Deaths Worldwide (Apr 04)
Exercise five times a week, public urged (Apr 04)
India's Public, Private Sectors Unite Against TB (Mar 04)
Terror of Childbirth (Mar 04)
Organ scandal parents win case (Mar 04)
Indian Experts Urge Political Parties to Make Health a Fundamental Right (Feb 04)
Here, there, everywhere - it's a microbial world with good guys and bad guys (Feb 04)
Bill on removal of organs will 'paralyse' life-saving research (Feb 04)

Health Care - A Human Right (2002)

Paying for Health Care  

Massachusetts Begins Universal Health Care (Jul 07) 
US spends far more, but health care is falling behind 
The Medicare Privatization Scam (Apr 07) 
States Expand Children's Health Coverage (Apr 07) 
Poll Shows Majority in US Back Health Care for All (Mar 07)
Pediatricians Voice Anger Over Costs of Vaccines  (Mar 07)
Without Health Benefits, a Good Life Turns Fragile 
Child Health Care Splits White House and States (Feb 07) 
The President’s Risky Health Plan (Jan 07)

Medicaid Plan Prods Patients Toward Health (Dec 06)
New York Bans Most Trans Fats in Restaurants (Dec 06)
U.S. Lags in Several Areas of Health Care, Study Finds (Nov 06)
Brown launches £2.1bn bond issue to vaccinate 500 million children (Nov 06)
Falling Into the Doughnut Hole (Oct 06)
Modest proposal: health insurance for every person (Aug 06)
Bush Signs Order on Health Care (Aug 06)
Disputes Stall Efforts to Finance Medicine for Poor Countries (Jul 06)
Drug Makers Pay for Lunch as They Pitch (Jul 06)
As Other Asian Nations Have Moved to Control Bird Flu, It Is Rapidly Spiraling in Indonesia (Jul 06)
Texas Hospitals Reflect Debate on Immigration (Jul 06)
Bush Administration Plans Medicare Changes (Jul 06)
Health Care Plan for San Francisco (Jun 06)
Creating a competitive health insurance market (Jul 06)
Drug firms a danger to health - report (Jun 06)
In a Dentist Shortage, British (Ouch) Do It Themselves (May 06)
Drugs firm blocks cheap blindness cure (Jun 06)
Nurse exodus leaves Kenya in crisis (May 06)
Attention Shoppers: Low Prices on Shots in Clinic (May 06)
Mass. lawmakers approve ambitious health care plan (Ap 06)
Child obesity has doubled in a decade (Ap 06)
A Health Fix That Is Not Fantasy (Ap 06)
Dead Mothers Don't Talk (Ap 06)
In Medicare Maze, Some Find They're Tangled in Two Drug Plans (Mar 06)
For Some Who Solve Puzzle, Medicare Drug Plan Pays Off (Mar 06)
The Doctor Will See You for Exactly Seven Minutes (Mar 06)
Nonprofit Hospitals Face Scrutiny Over Practices (Mar 06)
A Cancer Drug's Big Price Rise Disturbs Doctors and Patients (Mar 06)
The Lopsided Bush Health Plan (Feb 06)
U.S. to Pay Big Employers Billions Not to End Their Retiree Health Plans (Feb 06)
As Canada's Slow-Motion Public Health System Falters, Private Medical Care Is Surging (Feb 06)
Newsom's plan boosts health care for the uninsured (Feb 06)
A Cancer Drug Shows Promise, at a Price That Many Can't Pay (Feb 06)
Ruling Has Canada Planting Seeds of Private Health Care (Feb 06)

Cambodia Tries Nonprofit Path to Health Care (Jan 06)
States Intervene After Medicare Drug Plan Hits Snags (Jan 06)
Don't let Medicare drug plans become a prescription for uncertainty (Jan 06)
State steps in to help seniors get medicines (Jan 06)
In Article, Doctors Back Ban on Gifts From Drug Makers (Jan 06)
In War on Bird Flu, U.N. Looks to Recruit Killer Army (Jan 06)

Health Care for All, Just a (Big) Step Away (Dec 05) 
One-third of Cancer Deaths Avoidable (Nov 05) 
Is There a Link Between Stress and Cancer? (Nov 05)
Health insurance costs are on Wal-Mart's mind (Nov 05)
The History of Medicare and The Current Debate (Aug 05)
Toyota, Moving to Canada Because of Health Care Benefits (Jul 05)
A Drug Scourge Creates Its Own Form of Orphan (Jul 05)
Hard Sell: How Marketing Drives the Pharmaceutical Industry (Feb 05)
Private Health Care in Jails Can Be a Death Sentence (Feb 05)
Bird Flu Drug Rendered Useless (Jan 05)

In Critical Condition: Health Care in America (Oct 04)
Haggling Over Health Care (Oct 04)
Insurance in California for Maternity Costs (Sep 04)
Poverty Rate Up 3rd Year In a Row (Aug 04)
Health versus Wealth (Jul 04)
A 'heartbreaking' decision (Jul 04)
Deprived face greater heart failure risk, study shows (Apr 04)
Medicare to Go Broke by 2019, Trustees Predict (Mar 04)
Billions Suffer Lack of Vitamins, Minerals (Mar 04)
Federal AIDS funding cuts 'devastating' S.F. hit hardest at 12%, Oakland 5.9%, San Jose cut 5.1% (Mar 04)
Health Spending at Record Rate (Jan 04)
Sick State Budgets, Sick Kids (Jan 04)

Medicare - The Trojan Horse? (Nov 03)

Abortion

Pro-Life Nation (Ap 06)
Kiss-and-Tell No More (Ap 06)
Women in UK demand tougher laws to curb abortions (Jan 06)
'Partial birth' abortion ban held unconstitutional (Feb 06)

We already know the truth about abortion (Apr 04)
Nurses set to perform abortions (Apr 04)
Law Limiting Abortion Is Ruled Unconstitutional by Judge (Jun 04)
Abortions at record level, despite better contraception services (Aug 04)

Senate Approves Bill to Prohibit Type of Abortion (Oct 03)

Impaired Infants and Medical Futility

Obstetricians in UK call for debate on ethics of euthanasia for very sick babies (Nov 06)
Hospitals in the UK turn away ill babies (Oct 06)
Breakthrough scanner gives premature babies new hope (Jan 06)

Very Premature Babies Are Still at Risk, Researchers Find (Jul 05)
Toxin in plastics harming unborn boys (May 05)

Do Not Resuscitate orders and ethical decisions in a neonatal intensive care unit in a Muslim community 

Too Young to Die: Prenatal Care in California 1 (Oct 04)
Too Young to Die: Prenatal Care in California 2 
Too Young to Die: Prenatal Care in California 3
Too Young to Die: Prenatal Care in California 4
Too Young to Die: Prenatal Care in California 5 

No liability for providing life-saving care to an infant over the parents' refusal (2000)

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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide 
 

The Last Word on the Last Breath (Oct 06)
Devoted husband gets suspended sentence for helping wife to die (Oct 06)
Call for no-consent euthanasia (Jun 06)
California looks to replicate Oregon's assisted suicide law (Jun 06)
Experts in UK seek no resuscitation review for elderly (Feb 06) 
Euthanasia in the UK: doctors aid 3,000 deaths (Jan 06)
The U. S. Supreme Court Upholds the Oregon Assisted-Suicide Law (Jan 06)

Mercy killing in the UK (Dec 05) 
Mother who killed son spared jail (Nov 05)
To be or not to be? It's not our choice (Oct 05) 
Jack's Death, His Choice (Jul 05)

Revealed: full scale of euthanasia in Britain (Sep 04)
Husband, 100, spared jail for 'act of love' killing (Jul 04)
Choosing Death (Jul 04)
Bush Administration Blocked on Oregon Suicide Law (May 04)

Governor of Florida Orders Woman Fed in Right-to-Die Case (Oct 03)