A food poisoning incident occurred at the Institute of Mental Health in Erragadda, Hyderabad. Over ninety patients were affected, and one p...

Johns Hopkins University and the Ajit Isaac Foundation partnered to establish palliative care centers in underserved areas of India. The co...

The UK may be on the verge of legalizing assisted dying, thanks to a controversial new bill. Proposed by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, the legi...

The Government of India has introduced draft guidelines for assisted withdrawal of life support for terminally-ill patients. The guidelines...

The Indian Medical Association has expressed concerns over new guidelines that put the responsibility of deciding on life support withdrawa...

The Union Health Ministry's draft guidelines on passive euthanasia suggest doctors should make considered decisions on withdrawing life sup...

An increasing number of individuals are choosing euthanasia to end their lives. They are the people who have suffered mental health issues ...

SC held that the patient's right who is unable to express his view cannot be kept outside that Article 21 (Right to life and liberty) of th...

The ruling stems from a petition filed by an NGO 'Common Cause', who had approached the court seeking a direction for recognition of 'livin...

The ruling has significant moral, social and professional implications. Here's what that means.

Girish Gokhale, a senior lawyer assisting ELICIT in preparing the draft bill, said that instead of using the term right to die he would put...

Presenlty, doctors in India are not allowed under the Hippocratic Oath to switch off life support systems except in medical cases involving...

"A consensus should be developed on whether to allow killing of terminally-ill people with no chances of revival. It is a complex issue."

The SC has referred the issue of legalising euthanasia to a five- judge Constitution bench due to "inconsistent" opinion in previous verdic...

The Centre has rejected the Law Commission's recommendation to allow terminally ill patients to choose death to end their suffering, attorn...

The court has asked them to ensure visa seekers have a doctor's certificate.

The Delhi Consumer Commission has held that inadequate ratio of doctor and patient or nurse and patient in government or private hospitals ...