As a child, the risk of suffering and dying from infection is higher the younger you are; and higher, the less developed a region you are born in. Childhood vaccination programmes have greatly reduced mortality around the world, but least so for the very young among the very poor of the world. This appears partly owing to suboptimal vaccine effectiveness. Unfortunately, although most vaccines a...

Physician-assisted suicide' and euthanasia are acts that explicitly and overtly involve physicians in determining the mode and time of their patients' deaths. Understandably, therefore, these aid-in-dying acts raise concern and apprehension among physicians who would be involved. Although our means of dealing with these practices through our legal system affect all of society, the attitudes of ...

This paper presents and discusses a recent Israeli proposal to legislate on the rights of the dying patient. A gap exists between elitist biases of the committee proposing the law, and popular values and sentiments. The proposed law divides the dying patients into two groups: "those who wish to go on living" and "those who wish to die". The former will have a right to life prolonging extraordin...

[3]. It was reported that high-intensity intermittent exercise significantly improves heart structure and function. b) Sitting is bad for children indicating that children who sit too much may face adult-sized health consequences [4]. After a single session of prolonged inactivity, children developed changes in their blood flow and arteries which would herald the start of serious cardiovascular...

BACKGROUND Recent events in Canada have mobilized public debate concerning the controversial issue of euthanasia. Physicians represent an essential stakeholder group with respect to the ethics and practice of euthanasia. Further, their opinions can hold sway with the public, and their public views about this issue may further reflect back upon the medical profession itself. METHODS We conduct...

Objective: Little empirical evidence exists to support either side of the ongoing debate over whether legalising physician aid in dying would undermine patient trust. Design: A random national sample of 1117 US adults were asked about their level of agreement with a statement that they would trust their doctor less if ‘‘euthanasia were legal [and] doctors were allowed to help patients die’’. Re...

I was surprised to read a recent editorial by Dr. Chochinov in this journal (Chochinov 2014). One does not often come across psychiatrists using the acronym “MAD” in a pejorative way to describe anything, certainly not in a medical journal. Dr. Chochinov quotes me as saying, “Take for instance the former chair of the Royal Society of Canada Panel on End-of-Life Decision-Making (Schüklenk et al....