BY DANIEL GAITAN | daniel@lifemattersmedia.org California’s controversial physician-assisted suicide law has been ruled unconstitutional by a state judge. Judge Daniel A. Ottolia, of Riverside County Superior Court, on Tuesday overturned the law nearly two years after it took effect, ruling that the state Legislature improperly passed the measure during a special session on health care funding. […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law this month a bill to evaluate the state’s health care resources for seriously and terminally ill patients. The new law establishes the state’s first Palliative Care and Quality of Life Study Committee, which is designed to offer insight about such care and provide […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF A new law signed by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert allows terminally ill patients the “right to try” medicinal cannabis. The law, which went into effect this week, allows some dying patients to possess and use marijuana. The measure ties medicinal cannabis to 2015’s Right to Try Act, which allows seriously ill patients to experiment […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF A controversial new Nebraska law will allow terminally ill patients to experiment with drugs not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The so-called “Right to Try” bill, sponsored by conservative state Sen. Robert Hilkemann, will go into effect this summer, making Nebraska the 40th state in the nation with such legislation. Republican […]
National Health Care Decisions Week In Chicago – We Learned What Living Well Means To You – Chicago residents successfully began the process of considering and documenting their future health care wishes during National Health Care Decisions Week! Hundreds joined us in some of the city’s busiest public spaces to share their ideas of living […]