Reiterating the right to die with dignity, the Supreme Court allowed the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for Harish Rana, laying down safeguards for passive euthanasia and end-of-life care.

The controversial changes to the province’s disability income assistance framework have been a long time coming. At least, that’s what NDP MLA and Shadow Minister for Community and Social Services ...

The Supreme Court's landmark ruling permitting the withdrawal of life support for 32-year-old Harish Rana, who has been in a vegetative state for the past 13 years, has been widely hailed by the ...

The bill, if passed, would allow terminally-ill, mentally competent adults to seek medical help to end their lives.

Jane Lax shifts in topic from the cap on bus fares to A&E (Accident and Emergency) waiting times (Herald Letters, March 3). Ms Lax complains that the wider public will be subsidising the cap on bus ...

The court ruled that clinically assisted nutrition qualifies as medical treatment and can be withdrawn if medical boards ...

In the landmark judgment of Harish Rana v. Union of India & Ors. (2026), the Supreme Court of India fundamentally reshaped ...

The Supreme Court allowed passive euthanasia in its first such order under the 2018 Common Cause ruling, permitting withdrawal of life support for a 32-YO man in a permanent vegetative state for 12 ...

Sustaining invasive mechanical ventilation may inappropriately prolong the dying process and perpetuate states worse than death in end-of-life care. Even though withdrawing the ventilator in this ...

We recently had the opportunity to chat about pain psychology, her work in reducing chronic pain, and the future of personalized medicine and where pain psychology fits in. I hope you find that her ...

Healthdirect, Australia's national virtual health service provider, has recently introduced a patient consultation summary ...

Amidst the global turmoil happening today, it is easy to yield to a sense of despair and despondency. Yet, there are positive changes at the national-local level which seem incremental at first glance ...