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Researchers studying suicide among the aged with severe depression found gender was a factor.
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Researchers studying suicide among the aged with severe depression found gender was a factor.
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Contradicting some previous research in adults, a new study suggests that the antidepressant amitriptyline , is no better than a placebo at treating painful gastrointestinal disorders in children.
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When used "off-label," the antidepressant amitriptyline works just as well as placebo in treating pain-predominant gastrointestinal disorders in children, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute.
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LONDON: Doctors allowed a young woman to kill herself because she had signed a ''living will'' that meant they could have been prosecuted if they intervened to save her life.
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Unlike other forms of suicide, physician assisted death does not cause substantial regret, or a sense of rejection among surviving family members.
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On the pamphlet, Melanie Blocker-Stokes grins as she proudly holds a bouquet of flowers in one hand and her heavily-pregnant belly with the other.
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Doctors allowed a young woman, Kerrie Wooltorton, to kill herself because she had signed a "living will" that meant they could have been prosecuted if they intervened to save her life.
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Hospital staff acted within the law when they allowed a young woman to kill herself because she told them she wanted to die, a coroner has ruled.
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