In an intensive care unit at Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a terminally ill patient in the end stage of cancer asked Dr. Daniela Lamas to be removed from machines and tubes so he could go ...

A new AI model proved to be better than medical professionals at identifying patients at high risk of cardiac arrest, according to a federally funded study done at Johns Hopkins University published ...

Brittany Maynard chose medical aid in dying after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. Maynard's husband, Dan Diaz, became her caregiver and supported her decision to move to Oregon for access ...

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In healthcare, death is often seen as a failure, a sign that treatment didn’t work. But death is inevitable, and for some, it occurs within the walls of long-term care facilities. Nurses are expected ...

Blood cancer patients waiting for stem cell transplants are being given extra rounds of chemotherapy and some are dying when that no longer works, a specialist says. The additional treatment brings ...

Allogene Therapeutics has reported a patient death tied to its anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody used for lymphodepletion in its key CAR-T cell therapy trial for large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL). The male ...