Doctors' Doubts Put Off Calif. Execution

A convicted killer's execution was postponed for the second time in less than a day amid continuing concerns over the constitutionality of the state's lethal injection policy.

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The links between prayer, faith and healing discussed in a special newspaper edition guest edited by the Dalai Lama.

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This shocking story presents evidence that Israeli forces capture Palestinians allegedly to take out their organs and sell them and also take Palestinians they just killed and helicopter the body into Israel.

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A medical ethicist and oncologist finds out how it feels to be targeted and vilified by people who can barely tie their own shoelaces.

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this story is about more than medicine. Its about faith, parenting, healing, and freedom. The boy is caught in the middle with the state acting as supreme parent overriding his will and the will of his parents.

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World's oldest mother dies at 69, leaving behind 2 year old orphans. POLL: Should there be a maximum age limit for IVF?

The death of Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, who gave birth two years ago to premature twins, has fueled debate about in vitro fertilization treatment. Ms.

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To celebrate their first year together as a married couple, she went to a plastic surgery clinic and had a hymenoplasty operation.

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There's a debate that needs to happen around this story; but not because of this family or as a result of this families actions. We need to debate who has a child's be interest at heart: family, the state, the medical establishment.

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The need of states to protect children who are suffering from life-threatening diseases is increasingly colliding with religious choices of parents, including one case where a child has died.

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At 66, she is four years older than the previous record holder. Mrs Adeney, who is around eight months pregnant,...is still working a five-day week, is in perfect health and looking forward to the birth of what is thought to be her first child. [...]

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Hodgkin lymphoma is one of the more curable forms of cancer — the 5 year survival rates for patients who are middle-aged or younger is over 90%, and for kids, it is over 95%.

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Observed Institute of Medicine president Harvey Fineberg, this morning: every week seems to bring more news accounts citing a breach of medical ethics — "some problem of a conflict of interest, some failure to reveal a financial relationship between a clinician or a researche …

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Two former military officers, both psychologists, were paid $1,000 a day by the Central Intelligence Agency to supervise the torture and waterboarding of US detainees, according to a report published late Thursday.

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A full 12 years ago, Pfizer tested the drug Trovan in the middle of a triple epidemic in Nigeria. It did not tell the human guinea pigs that it was a drug trial. This was clearly unethical. But Pfizer fought to deny Nigerians the right to sue in an American court.

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President Bush had restricted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to cells derived from embryos that had already been destroyed (as of his speech of Aug. 9, 2001).

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CHICAGO – The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor.

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The Southern California mother of octuplets and six other children, who claims she is "not living off taxpayer money," is now asking for public donations.

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Last month, a physician who serves as an ethics consultant told me about a growing concern in her hospital. Doctors and nurses "feel trapped," she said, by the competing demands of administrators, insurance companies, lawyers, patients' families and even one another.

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The Czech Republic has been strongly criticised by Europe's leading human rights body for continuing to surgically castrate male sex offenders.

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Geron, a California-based cell-therapy company that has been working with embryonic stem cells for the last decade, finally received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin clinical trials of its cell-based therapy for spinal-cord injury.

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Soran Reader, a moral philosopher facing the prospect of losing her life, memory or thought, is outraged that the law bars living wills

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By now, you've probably heard the story of the Long Island surgeon who is suing his estranged wife for the kidney he donated to her.

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The top doctor in the Washington Department of Corrections has resigned, saying the use of medical staff to prepare for an execution is unethical.

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How should non-medically necessary procedures that risk someone's life be viewed?

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Britain's Sky television was criticised on Wednesday for plans to screen the final moments of a terminally-ill man who chose to commit suicide.

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A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous protest from the government agency that enforces jo …

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