Amid continuing uncertainty about the impact of deep US funding cuts to humanitarian work worldwide, the head of the UN ...

Bartholomew’s hospital in East London being treated for AIDS-associated illnesses ... As the debate around assisted dying comes to a head with a vote in Parliament this week, I’ve been ...

Decades of experience as a GP working with terminally ill patients has convinced me that we need to change our laws on assisted dying. Like many doctors, I’ve been at too many bedsides to ignore ...

New HIV infections among children in the country have reduced by 40 per cent in the last seven years, new data shows. More men are dying from AIDS related illnesses even though the most infected ...

But in the context of assisted dying, there is a surprising and persisting ... The doctor remains with the patients and will administer an intravenous dose if the patient has not died after ...

Tuscany has become the first region in Italy to approve a medically assisted dying law that provides patients with clear procedures and timelines. Marco Cappato "Today, we have achieved an ...

As Japan marked World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, a workplace incident showed that patients in the country are still not free of discrimination and prejudice. Earlier this year, a man in his 40s who had ...

Doctors would be required to set out a range of other options available to a patient if they discuss assisted dying, the MP behind the Bill has proposed, in an effort to ensure “the most ...

the researchers then used multilevel models to estimate oncologists' rates of prescribing chemotherapy and other systemic cancer therapies to their dying patients in the last two weeks of life.