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...issue--whether doctors, forsaking the Hippocratic oath, should be allowed to prescribe lethal doses of medication or actively help mortally ill patients end their lives--has been moving toward center stage at least since 1990, when the court, in Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, established a patient's right to be taken off life support. In 1991, Quill, a New York physician, wrote in a medical journal about assisting a suicide. Meanwhile, retired Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian began a string of assisted or supervised deaths that now stands at 46. Three times Michigan authorities charged Kevorkian with murder...
...assisted-suicide ban on behalf of three plaintiffs who had already died naturally. Choosing a dignified death, Reinhardt asserted, was a constitutional right under the 14th Amendment's due-process protection of personal liberties and the principle of privacy defined in the court's abortion rulings: "A competent, terminally ill adult" should not be forced to endure "a childlike state of helplessness, diapered, sedated, incompetent...
...fuss, Tamiflu is far from a guarantee against disaster. "It may well be of great benefit to people who can get it while they're ill," says Osterholm, pointing out that it works relatively well in treating current flu infections, but adding that it's unclear how effective the drug would be against the H5N1 virus and at what dosage it might work best. And there's a separate, troubling development: the emergence of a case in Vietnam that appears resistant to the drug. Still, Osterholm believes that stockpiles of Tamiflu, being a valuable treatment tool and, unlike a vaccine...
...saying that human-generated pollution is producing global warming that is altering the weather. Now it appears it might also be causing more of the worst type of hurricane. Only a few skeptics, industrialists and political opportunists remain unconvinced. But the taxpayers are the ones who have to finance ill-advised and heedless policy decisions, and then pay more to clean up after weather-related disasters. Clarence Madhosingh London Labor Pains "Will Europe Ever Work?," on Europeans' shifting attitudes to labor and unemployment [Oct. 3], suggested that workers can expect to work harder and longer for no additional...
...customized NYU ID card, complete with a photo of me that my mother has pasted over my dad’s picture. I wore this particular outfit for maybe six or seven Halloweens, beginning at age six. It was an impressive streak that went happily uninterrupted save a brief, ill-advised turn as a pale pink Care Bear.But when my relatives glance at this undoubtedly adorable photo today, they don’t smile and laugh. Instead, their lips purse, puzzlement sets in, and they begin to wonder: what happened to you? As it happens, I’ve been...