Update Archive: 2013


View Table of Contents for Update 65: Volume 27, Number 1 (2013)
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Update 65: Volume 27, Number 1–Year 2013, Number 1 (View as PDF)

Belgian doctors take legal euthanasia practice to new lows, without sanctions

An elastic law
Twin brothers euthanized
More evidence of the slippery slope

Eleven states targeted for legal doctor-assisted suicide in 2013

Vermont
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maryland & California
New Hampshire & Kansas
Hawaii
Montana & New Mexico

Oregon’s 2012 assisted-suicide report: more deaths & unknowns

Enabling the Unthinkable

Refusal of basic care
Not an isolated case
Medical treatment or basic care
Necessity of principles and policies

Some hospice policies present obstacles for patients

AMA issues policy on “divided loyalty”

Study identifies common elder abuse injuries

NY targets abuse of disabled

News briefs from home & abroad

Oregon
Quebec
Great Britain
Japan


Update 66: Volume 27, Number 2–Year 2013, Number 2 (View as PDF)

  Care or suicide? It’s all available at Washington’s “full service” cancer center

Death with Dignity Program
SCCA’s statistics

State legislatures deal with doctor-assisted suicide measures

Connecticut
Montana
Vermont
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Kansas
Hawaii

New developments in Minnesota’s case against the Final Exit Network

Texas Struggles with Its Futile Care Beast by Wesley J. Smith

Study finds diagnostic errors common in primary care

Researchers develop test to see if older patients will be alive in 10 years

Social isolation is deadly for older men & women

Bioethicist says donor’s death is insignificant in harvesting organs

News briefs from home and abroad

Canada
Ireland
Australia
Belgium


Update 67: Volume 27, Number 3–Year 2013, Number 3 View as PDF

Vermont lawmakers enact an assisted-suicide law devoid of patient protections

What the Vermont law says and does not say
Vermont hospitals opting out of Act 39
Patient protection services available

Assisted suicide’s “collateral damage” evident in Oregon

Maine’s legislators reject prescribed-suicide bill

Status of assisted-suicide bills that are still pending

Massachusetts
New Jersey
Hawaii
Kansas

Washington surpasses Oregon in 2012 assisted-suicide deaths

Quebec tries new strategy to legalize euthanasia

Dutch doctors propose killing disabled babies so parents don’t suffer

Britain’s Lord Falconer tables “Assisted Dying” bill

New CPR technique greatly improves chances for recovery

Study finds improved CPR outcomes for elderly patients in US hospitals

Elderly patients with DNR orders are more likely to die of surgical complications

News briefs from home & abroad

New Hampshire
Australia
Switzerland
Great Britain


Update 68:Volume 27, Number 4–Year 2013, Number 4 View as PDF

Outrage mounts over Belgium’s euthanasia law and its toll on the country

Recent cases go beyond “limits” of the law

Doctors affirm the profession’s rejection of prescribed death

NEJM Poll
World Medical Association
National Medical Associations

Canadian courts issue 2 landmark decisions that protect patients’ rights

Cuthbertson v. Rasouli
Carter v. Canada

Bureaucracy Lives! How many experts does it take to advise a dying patient?

Dutch report skyrocketing numbers of euthanasia and assisted-suicide deaths

News briefs from home & abroad

Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Australia
New Zealand