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Charlie Gard dies after sparking a global debate on the ethics of life and death
By Catherine Pepinster — July 28, 2017
LONDON (RNS) — The baby died after his parents gave up a protracted legal battle with a London hospital over whether he could be successfully treated in the United States for a rare genetic condition.
Mario Cuomo’s overlooked contributions to bioethics (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — January 6, 2015
(RNS) Through the New York state's Task Force on Life and the Law, he helped shift the center of the medical universe to the patient.
Ethicists criticize treatment of brain-dead patients
By Liz Szabo — January 10, 2014
(RNS) Many doctors are questioning continued medical procedures on a 13-year-old girl declared brain-dead nearly a month ago, calling interventions to provide nutrition to a dead body wrong and unethical.
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