Medical Futility Blog

The Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities is sponsoring a series of free education sessions this spring (seven 4-hour sessi...

The New York Times reported last night that California prosecutors have charged Dr. Hootan Roozrokh with trying to hasten Ruben Navarro...

Lawrence Schneiderman is one of the most important and prolific scholars writing about medical futility disputes. His Wrong Medicine: Docto...

We watched and read about the very high profile Nataline Sarkisyan case in Los Angeles several weeks ago. Now, there is a similar case in S...

The National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) Initiative is sponsoring a webinar on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 from 2:00-3:00p.m. EST. Ther...

Catholic World News reported yesterday and Catholic News Agency reported today that the Vatican Pontifical Academy for Life is organizin...

The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that doctors at Children's Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital removed newborn David Granados...

The first appellate brief should be filed today in the Lauren Richardson case. This, of course, assumes that my math is right. It is probab...

Wesley Smith is one of the most prolific and articulate opponents of what he calls "futile care theory." And he regularly writes ...

Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schinder, is quoted in Friday's Winnipeg Free Press : This is even worse than my sister's situat...

ABC News in Houston ran a story yesterday about Genny Granados who "remains behind bars charged with injury to a child, causing a med...

Ashlee Callie, a popular South African actress, was involved in a head-on automobile collision on Friday night, Feb. 8. She had weekend su...

This blog run by a couple of medical students perhaps suggests a shift in professional perspective on medically appropriate care at the end...

Sunday's New York Times Magazine has another in a related series of articles by David Rieff. In "Miracle Workers?" Rieff arg...