Medical Futility Blog

Jaclyn Portanova and colleagues at the USC Davis School of Gerontology have just published   "It Isn’t Like This on TV: Revisiting CPR ...

Pregnant teenager Neysi Perez was buried alive.  She was removed from her tomb and coffin after family members heard her screaming.  Her mot...

In "Coma" Jack Kevorkian depicts an unconscious patient being slowly pulled into the mouth of a macabre death mask. Helpless. The ...

The Court of Appeals of Indiana issued a decision that allows a family to proceed with its medical malpractice action alleging that a hospi...

In "Very Still Life," Jack Kevorkian's message, "though somewhat capricious, nebulous and indefinable, is clearly undersc...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Nevada ordered a hospital to continue physiological support for a dead woman pending briefing, arg...