by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
PVS & Ambien: Several studies are being conducted worldwide on patients thought to be in PVS, using zolpidem (Ambien) which actually wakes up to sixty percent of these patients. Tests conducted on a 23-year-old, severely brain damaged woman—clinically diagnosed as...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A recent report published in the New England Journal of Medicine (May 10, 2007) has been reported by the media as stating that the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands has dropped since it was formally legalized in 2002. When reading the actual report we learn of...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Could be a First Step to Euthanasia in Mexico. The legislature of Mexico City, the largest city in Mexico and in the western hemisphere, yesterday passed an “Anticipated Death” law that will allow patients diagnosed as terminally ill to refuse...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
An assisted-suicide bill that allows doctors and nurses to suggest death by unconscious dehydration has barely passed the California State Assembly. AB 2747 would authorize total sedation without nutrition and hydration for depressed and confused patients, whether or...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The religious beliefs of doctors strongly influence the decisions they make when caring for terminally ill patients, according to research published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Dr. Clive Seale, a professor at the Centre for Health Sciences, Barts and the London...
