IN JULY 2005, a 23-year-old British woman was involved in a horrific road accident. She was taken to hospital in a deep coma with a serious head injury. After an operation to relieve the pressure on ...

On March 11, the Supreme Court addressed one of the most difficult questions of life and death: whether, when and on what ...

India’s first passive euthanasia patient, Harish Rana, was cremated in Delhi on March 25 (today) after spending 13 years in a ...

For 13 years, Harish Rana lay motionless in a persistent vegetative state, kept alive by a feeding tube while his parents spent their savings, sold their home and fought court after court for the ...

In a landmark judgement reaffirming a patient's right to die with dignity, the Supreme Court on Wednesday, for the first time ever, allowed for a 31-year-old man who has been in a vegetative state to ...

The prolonged medical care has put immense financial pressure on the family. Treatment costs have crossed Rs 4 crore, forcing them to sell land and use up their savings.

Much of the ammunition in the battle over Terri Schiavo’s fate has been medical language that’s fairly new in the public realm. The terms can mean one thing to experts and another thing entirely when ...

India, March 25 -- Harish Rana, who spent 13 years in a coma and became the face of a landmark legal battle on the right to ...