Moral and ethical decisions come with the turf of being a doctor. Some of those decisions have massive consequences that affect people's lives forever. Other ethical issues, although not ...

TORONTO (AP) — A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed ...

TORONTO — A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed under ...

Claims by President Donald Trump's former physician that the President's representatives essentially forced him to surrender Trump's medical records to them raise a number of questions about whether ...

In a new book, bioethicist and internist Barron Lerner recalls how he came to question some of his father's medical practices — practices that... 'Good Doctor' Puts Past Medical Practices Under An ...

Doctors have gotten much better at diagnosing and treating sports-related concussions, which is a good thing since Americans suffer up to 4 million sports-related concussions a year. But we're not so ...

Recently, medical workers at Israeli hospitals told BBC News that Palestinian detainees from Gaza were “shackled and blindfolded” while they received treatment. Physicians owe a duty to their patients ...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada has arguably the world's most permissive system of euthanasia — the practice of doctors and nurse practitioners killing patients with an injection of drugs at their request.

Health Minister Simeon Brown’s claim that this week’s industrial action by doctors “crosses an ethical line” misunderstands doctors’ ethical responsibilities. Doctors and nurses, together with ...

Evidence continues to point to the fact that Hamas has been able to exploit the protected status of hospitals, granted under international humanitarian law, in order to wage aggression against Israel ...

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