Futile Care

“Baby Joseph” returns to Canada, breathing on his own

Jared Yee | 28 April 2011

Joseph Maraachli, the boy whose family refused to accept a Canadian hospital’s recommendation to remove his breathing tube and allow him to die, is now breathing on his own without the assistance of a mechanical ventilator.

Canadian baby at heart of ethics debate goes to US for surgery

Jared Yee | 25 March 2011

Canadian doctors wouldn’t treat him

Rwandan woman being fed again

Michael Cook | 18 March 2011

A Rwandan woman in a permanent vegetative state whose feeding tube had been removed against her family’s wishes is being fed again.

Black and white in the healthcare rationing debate

Michael Cook | 09 July 2010

Thanks to Jacob M. Appel

Parents fight to keep brain-damaged Canadian baby on ventilator

Michael Cook | 29 January 2010

Doctors seek to remove Isaiah May