April 15, 2010 — Despite the distress of learning that their disease is terminal, most cancer patients prefer to know the truth, and to hear it from their physicians. This conclusion is from a Korean ...

Last month, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a bill lawmakers passed called “Deb’s Law” that enables terminally ill patients to request a prescription from their doctor to end their ...

The oncologist told me that there were no treatments left for this patient with metastatic cancer: no chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery. Further treatment would not alter the patient's ...

SACRAMENTO, California — California could become home to the nation’s most sweeping assisted dying policies with a new bill that would allow dementia patients and out-of-state residents to end their ...

At 31 years of age, Amanda Hedges believed that she still had her whole life ahead of her. As with many people her age, ...

As physicians and policymakers search for ways to deal with excess pills fueling the opioid epidemic, cancer physicians fear potential shortages in injectable opioids needed to treat critically ill ...

It’s hard to imagine that Mr Roger Tan’s days are numbered. His fitted T-shirt hugs a gym-honed body, sleeves stretched over solid biceps, with no trace of middle-age spread. He is sharp, lively and ...

“What would you do if today was your last day?” Over 20 years as a transplant doctor at Stanford University Medical Center, I asked thousands of patients this very question when I first met with them ...

Paris — After months of deliberation and contemplation, President Emmanuel Macron announced at the weekend that he is backing a bill to introduce new "end-of-life" legislation in France for terminally ...

The Ron Silverio/Heather Block End of Life Options Law allows medical aid in dying in Delaware. And it might be more ...

Trump similarly praised the program during an Aug. 17 rally in Pennsylvania, in a podcast interview with a conservative commentator, and during his Republican National Convention acceptance speech: ...