The return of control to physicians is welcome, but that does make their responsibilities more onerous...

Readers write in from Chennai, Sholavandan, Ujjain, Mumbai and Calcutta...

Readers write in from Sholavandan, Raipur, Chennai and Calcutta...

Arguments for and against hinge on differential interpretations of the inalienable right to life, individual liberty, medical ethics and State overreach...

While The Fifa Disciplinary Committee started an investigation against Ecuador...

‘Bad death’ reveals the pitfalls of science’s quest for human immortality...

A woman has sued a doctor for allowing her to be born; will there be more such lawsuits in the age of the Anthropocene?...

The country is also on course to reject law changes that would allow recreational marijuana use...

Frenchman Alain Cocq chooses to livestream his death on social media after President Emmanuel Macron turned down his request for euthanasia...

Trial centered around an Alzheimer’s sufferer...