Marcia Angell's July 7 op-ed piece, "No One Trusts the Dying," is disingenuous in the extreme. Dr. Angell complains that doctors are not allowed to take terminally ill patients' suicidal wishes at face value and give them lethal drugs. But she knows that...

Albert Crenshaw's Cash Flow column "Accelerated Death Benefits Could Become Tax-Exempt" {Business, Jan. 22} omits a number of critical points in its comparison of the insurance industry and the newer viatical industry. While it is certainly true that both insurance and viatical companies...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a ruling that terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs — even if that means the patient will likely die before the medicine is approved.A federal appeals court, siding with the...

Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is approved, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...

“One of the greatest fears of a dying patient is not death, but the pain associated with the final days of life.” —R. Henry Capps Jr., medical student, East Carolina University School of Medicine William Bergman, a retired railroad...