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• s  performing an essential function in the living body

• The charity said selling food to fund its programs is inefficient and often delivers life-sustaining grain not to the hungry but to those who can afford it.
• The will empowered her parents to make "any and all decisions regarding medical treatment," including terminating "life-sustaining treatment.
• Marie Humbert the mother of that man has continued denouncing the law for only allowing the passive act of interrupting life-sustaining treatment.

• vital

News & Articles

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• Nation's Kidney Care Leaders Express Alarm Over Depth of CMS-Proposed Cuts in Medicare Funding for Dialysis
  WASHINGTON, July 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's leading kidney care coalition expressed alarm over the depth of cuts contained in the just issued Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed rule affecting Medicare funding for life-sustaining dialysis...
  July 1, 2013 - PR Newswire
• New rule targets drug shortages
  Federal regulators, trying to head off drug shortages, are poised to release a proposed rule that would require manufacturers to notify them if they stop or delay production of critical drugs. The rule would require manufacturers to give the Food and Drug Administration six months’ notice before discontinuing or interrupting the production of drugs that are life-sustaining, or that treat or ...
  June 30, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Dr Keith Ablow in FOXNews
  On the other hand, Ablow said that the Canadian couple - Isaac and Rebecka May - are "demonstrating tremendous psychological strength in lobbying for their baby Isaiah to continue life-sustaining treatment. :No doctor can predict with absolute...
• Maria Cantwell in Seattle Times
  These are some of the most basic and life-sustaining issues that demand involvement of us as a nation and certainly involve us in Washington state,Cantwell said.
• Pope John Paul II in National Catholic Reporter
  In addressing the international congress "Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas," which was sponsored by the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations and the Pontifical Academy for...