Dozens of gurneys with closed stainless-steel boxes greeted medical student Zain Alfankek on her first day of gross-anatomy class at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Anxiety welled in ...

Dear Mr. Premack: I am the agent under my father’s medical power of attorney. He has Alzheimer’s and now, ironically, has terminal cancer. The doctors have been cooperative with implementing do not ...

Much of the general public doesn't experience death very often. Many doctors, on the other hand, do. Researchers with the End-of-life Care Research Group in Belgium wondered how this intimate ...

"It is striking that many physicians would also consider euthanasia in the Alzheimer's disease scenario, despite the progressive status of this disease making it a complex basis for a competent ...