The New York bill defines “aid in dying” as a medical practice. If a patient qualifies, a doctor can prescribe a lethal dose ...

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Victor Malin Jr. shares his personal struggles with foster care, incarceration, and the foster care-to-prison pipeline in a ...

But Harding’s doctors offered only tests and prescriptions that led nowhere. One prescribed an inhaler and, when it didn’t ...

The maternal health crisis in the U.S., specifically affects Black moms. Dad and founder, Charles Johnson IV, is rectifying ...

Universities across the country are scrambling to comply with President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity push in an effort to ...

Cardinal Prevost was elected pontiff on the second day of the conclave, becoming the leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

He had spent years documenting life ... "Some people just wave us off, as if talking about death will make it come sooner," said Xiang Qiaozhen, a palliative care nurse in Zhejiang and a volunteer ...

LGBTQ+ elders experience unique aging challenges. One family's previously hidden story illustrates the struggles but also ...

Hospice care provides specialized, compassionate support for patients in the final stages of life, focusing on comfort rather than cure. According to data collected by the National Hospice and ...

In the deadly summer of 2020, Hispanics in Texas were half of all COVID-19 deaths, spurring many to vaccinate. Today, in a ...

Routine data (ie, data collected for clinical or administrative purposes) have long been used to describe and quantify end-of-life experiences, including inequitable outcomes. For example, studies ...