Euthanasia down under; first deaths under new Australian law heighten controversy over measure

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The Australian Medical Association and concerned parties are making public their displeasure with Australia's Northern Territory's 1996 "The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act," the world's first voluntary euthanasia legislation. The legislation stipulates that patients inclined to end their lives must be suffering from a terminal illness, free of depression and beyond the reach of further medical treatment. Patients must also receive approval from three doctors prior to the process. As of March 1997, three people have taken their life via the voluntary euthanasia procedures.

Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Abortion & Civil Rights NEC, Abortion, Civil rights, Northern Territory

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Europe looking at ethics of euthanasia, transplants

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The European Parliament will consider two proposals that would legalize euthanasia and liberalize rules for organ transplantation. The first proposal is likely to be rejected, but the second stands a good chance of being accepted. It would ban organ trading and designate organ recipients solely by medical need. The only controversial provision in the proposal is a clause allowing physicians to expropriate organs from deceased patients who fail to give their explicit consent while still alive.

HEALTH SERVICES, Social policy, European Union, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation, European Community

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The skinny on sugar

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Physicians Morrison C. Bethea and his co-authors have revolutionized popular thinking on proper diets and losing weight with their book 'Sugar Busters: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat.' The self-published book has gained enormously popularity in New Orleans, LA, and was recently picked up by Random House Books for wider distribution. Bethea advocates a diet low with low to moderate glycemic indexes.

Book Publishers, Books, Book Printing & Publishing, Publishing industry, Management, Physicians, Medical professions, Criticism and interpretation, Sugar Busters: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat (Book), Bethea, Morrison C.

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