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Eric is a kind of avatar of Hawking himself, whose amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has progressed to the point that he has lost control of his fingers and now communicates through a computer that converts the clenching of his cheek into artificial speech. Eric, too, is totally reliant on his...
Five weeks ago, the stocky old Greek, whose exuberant presence now filled his curtained-off corner of the ER, had undergone a "new old" hip replacement. Nick's artificial hip had a metal-on-metal bearing (basically a large metal ball in a metal cup) - a remake of an old...
"The administration of food and water even by artificial means is, in principle, an ordinary means of preserving life," said the Vatican ruling, which came in response to questions from the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference about what constitutes ordinary and extraordinary life support.
The polemics come just as the Vatican again weighed in on euthanasia. The Church's doctrinal office released a one-page document, approved by Benedict, that denounced the cutting off of food and water to patients in a vegetative state even if they would never regain consciousness. This reaffirmed John...
Mending Limbs and Lives I enjoyed reading about the prosthetics designed to help amputee animals keep moving [Sept. 3]. (But if the author thinks readers will go so far as to endorse prosthetic dog testicles, she should think again.) This article implies that work with animal prosthetics exceeds advances in...