cardiac surgery: a matter of life or death

Cardiac Surgery: A Matter of Life or Death

Copyright © 2013, Trauma Research Center; Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cardiovascular surgery, also known heart surgery is a stressful profession where surgical skills and ...

Euthanasia: a matter of life or death?

right to hasten death’ ... but on well established, traditional rights to bodily integrity and freedom from unwanted touching.”41 Taken in their totality, these cases show that the American courts have cleaved closely to the guiding principle of one’s liberty to refuse unwanted medical treatment, and have thus far shown no signs of crossing to the other side of the act-omission divide. 35. Wash...

It's a matter of life or death.

A matter of life or death

“Animal rights hunger striker sends message from his deathbed,” announced the Observer in a front-page splash on 6 December, reporting a letter to his supporters from Barry Horne, who had refused food for the previous 60 days. “This is not for me, it is for every animal in every torture laboratory,” said Horne, who had been admitted to York District Hospital in the UK, from prison where he was ...

EMT: Matter of Life or Death?

TGF-β is long considered a "protean" cytokine in cancer, changing its role from anti- to pro-tumorigenic in a context-dependent manner. In this issue of Cell, David et al. use mouse models of pancreatic cancer to shed light on the mechanistic basis of how TGF-β-induced EMT is coupled to either apoptosis or tumor progression.

Defining mental retardation: a matter of life or death.

Because persons with mental retardation cannot be executed for murder, the diagnosis becomes a life and death matter. The American Association on Mental Retardation (now the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities) and other associations agree that IQ alone is an insufficient criterion and adaptive functioning also needs to be considered. However, there is no satisfa...