AAP - 24-04-2017

Euthanasia is not the "panacea" to improving end-of-life care as the "media frenzy" suggests, says US bioethicist Dr Ezekiel Emanuel.

AAP - 28-06-2016

Advances in medical technology have fuelled unrealistic expectations of the healing power of hospital doctors, says an Australian research fellow.

AAP - 29-03-2016

Patients who die at home under palliative care have the same or longer survival time than those in hospitals, a Japanese study says. Cancer patients

AAP - 08-10-2015

Australia has come in overall second in the 2015 Quality of Death Index, which looks at palliative care, but current policies may change this.

AAP - 06-10-2015

California's governor has signed into law a bill that allows euthanasia for terminally ill patients, the fifth US state to do so. California

AAP - 07-05-2015

Victoria will investigate end-of-life options with a parliamentary inquiry set up to report by March next year. Voluntary euthanasia and palliative