In a ruling that re-energizes the debate over federalism and the right to die, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said the federal Controlled Substances Act does not give the Bush administration the ...

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee the emotionally charged debate over Oregon's "Death With Dignity" law, which allows physicians to prescribe drugs to hasten the death of terminally ill ...

Last March, 31-year-old Eileen Mihich was found dead in a room at the Hotel Deluxe in Portland, Ore. Near her body was an empty bottle of the poison pills prescribed specifically for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not and cannot approve the compounded drugs used in assisted suicide, since they fail ...