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...conditions, euthanasia is still forbidden. In practice, though, voluntary euthanasia - when a doctor ends a patient's life with his or her consent - is common. A 2003 University of Zurich study showed that 7 out of 10 terminally ill Swiss resorted to voluntary euthanasia by, for example, ingesting a lethal dose of drugs or asking to have life-support systems disconnected. The practice remains illegal in France, though a draft "right-to-die" law was passed last November in the National Assembly and will be debated by the Senate later this year. If approved, it will "essentially give permission...
Bedtime can be lethal for folks with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a study of 112 people who died from cardiac causes. The deadliest hours for those with OSA are from midnight to 6 a.m.; for most people, the risk of cardiac-related death is highest after waking, from 6 a.m. to noon...
Harvard evened the score with its own lethal power play just over halfway into the frame...
...particular, he works with the disfiguring diseases Pemphigus vulgaris and Pemphigoid. Pemphigus is a life-threatening skin disease while Pemphigoid is a less lethal, but still painful disease, according to the New England Journal of Medicine...
...health care fraud charges stem from allegations that Ahmed mixed blood samples of patients who had the less lethal Pemphigoid strain with those who had the lethal Pemphigus, in order to obtain Medicare coverage for their treatment...