An advanced healthcare directive made by a mentally ill woman opposed her treatment with psychotropic drugs even if that step put her life at risk, the High Court heard. The directive (AHD), and a ...

A woman’s unexpected stage 4 colorectal cancer diagnosis led doctors to pursue a liver transplant as a treatment option. With help from a lifelong friend who became her donor, she underwent the ...

When you have advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), both the cancer and its treatments can cause symptoms such as pain, low energy, and poor sleep all of which can take a toll on your quality of life ...

Not trying to be morbid here, but when I die – news flash: we all die, eventually – the death certificate is going to get the cause of death for me wrong. Whatever it might have been in the immediate, ...

A woman who had her baby taken away after giving birth aged just 16 opened up about the heartbreaking impact decades later. Diana Defries appeared on Friday's (March 27) BBC Breakfast, speaking to ...

An Indian man whose life support was removed after the Supreme Court accepted his parents' plea to do so has died. Harish Rana's case is the first instance of court-approved passive euthanasia - the ...

Aged care recipients are being charged up to $1000 more to receive support in their home, as some politicians have lashed a government assessment "algorithm" as an "unacceptable" failure.