Hastings Center panel backs patient right to refuse life support
A 20 member Hastings Center panel issued 159 page guidelines allowing mentally competent gravely ill patients to refuse or halt life sustaining treatment even against family opposition. The report says withholding treatment may ethically occur when patients are informed, and notes extending life is not always beneficial.
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Fetal cell transplants show promise as diabetes treatment
Researchers at Denver's Barbara Davis Center report encouraging results from 17 patients who received fetal islet transplants during kidney surgeries. Some cut insulin needs by 30 percent or more, with one patient reducing from 90 to under 50 units daily within weeks.
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Nursing home costs spark talk of long term care plans
Washington finds that two thirds of elderly living alone would be impoverished after 13 weeks in a nursing home while 40 percent will enter such facilities and the average stay runs 16 months. Costs rise about 6 percent yearly, with Medicaid funding much of the burden and private insurance seen as insufficient.
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Joshua Wiener
United States
Pauli Simon
Illinois
Richard Gephardt
Missouri
Health and Human Services
Otis Bowen
Wiener
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