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...enough, but it comes after a similar ruling last month by the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco, also one of the nation's most influential appeals courts. Unless the Supreme Court reverses both decisions--and there's no guarantee it will even hear the cases--the laws against physician-assisted suicide now on the books in a majority of states may be on their way out. "In the past 30 days there have been more developments in this field than there have been in the previous 20 years," says University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar...
John V. Federico '62, now a physician, says his contact with Kaczynski was "just a passing acquaintance...
...NUYS, Calif.: A California physician has developed a new diagnostic method for treating some breast cancer tumors. Dr. Melvin Silverstein, a surgical oncologist, announced a system Wednesday that could prevent excessive treatments that many women now undergo. The process assigns points to three characteristics of the common DCIS (for ductal carcinoma in situ) tumors. The tumor's final "score" determines whether it can be safely ignored, removed, or treated with radiation or a mastectomy. Now, tumors are often treated too aggressively with radiation or breast removal that may be unnecessary. "Right now we do not know which tumors are going...
...section. She was woozy with anesthesia, and Mike was not in the room, when doctors attempted the delivery. They pulled out the buttocks, then the legs and finally, to their astonishment, two heads. "We all stood in silence for about 30 seconds," recalls Dr. Joy Westerdahl, the family's physician, who assisted at the birth. "It was extremely silent...
...sudden it seems to us that the opponents of physician-assisted suicide, those who have been most wary about it, have at least as much at stake in passing such legislation as the proponents," he told the Globe. "They should help pass a statute that prevents a slide down the slippery slope...