London, United Kingdom – Britain is debating the issue of assisted dying after a bill to legalise it in England and Wales was formally introduced in parliament last week – the first attempt to ...

Karandeep Sonu Gaind is affiliated with the Ontario District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association (president). University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The ...

Starting Oct. 30, the province will begin accepting requests for assisted dying, known as MAID, before a person's condition, such as Alzheimer's, renders them incapable of giving consent.

Your support makes all the difference. A bid for the Welsh parliament to support assisted dying has been rejected in the Senedd. A cross-party motion submitted by Labour’s Julie Morgan calling ...

Wes Streeting will vote against assisted dying over concerns end of life care is not good enough for people to make an informed choice. As first reported by The Times, the health secretary told ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting will vote against changing the law on assisted dying, the BBC has confirmed. Backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has put forward a bill proposing that terminally ill ...

The Health Secretary will vote against legalising assisted dying over concerns regarding the state of palliative care in the UK, it has emerged. Wes Streeting had previously voted to legalise ...

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Achim Lenenbach, head of the Laser Medical Technology and Biophotonics Department at the Fraunhofer ILT, is driving forward robotically assisted laser surgery systems. A solution for gentle skull ...

1 will be on state ballots on November 5. This election, West Virginians will decide whether to amend the state constitution to ban medically assisted suicide, euthanasia and mercy killing. Here’s ...

Assisted death is “increasingly becoming part of the dialogue between patients and physicians, particularly when the patients have grievous and irremediable conditions,” he said. The Nova ...

On 16 October, Kim Leadbeater MP introduced a private members’ bill proposing to legalise assisted suicide (sometimes called assisted dying). The bill seeks to allow adults who are terminally ill to ...