Vegetative state is such a condition wherein awareness is abolished whereas arousal persists. It can be diagnosed clinically soon after a brain injury and may be reversible (as in the following case ...

The state's health department appointed medical experts to the secondary medical board to decide when life-sustaining treatment can be stopped for terminally ill patients ...

A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K Vinod Chandran agreed to take up the petition filed by NGO All Creatures Great and Small ...

The Karnataka government has ordered the establishment of medical boards in state hospitals to process requests for dignified ...

The Karnataka government has called for establishing medical boards in hospitals across the state to ensure the right to die ...

In its plea, the NGO prayed that a procedure should be laid down for rabies patients to allow them or their guardians to opt ...

A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K Vinod Chandran agreed to take up the petition filed by NGO All Creatures Great and Small on February 10 after the matter was mentioned for listing.

The Sangli police on Thursday arrested a suspect in the alleged murder and rape of a four-year-old girl in Karajagi village ...

The CBI and the West Bengal government had filed appeals in the Calcutta High Court seeking the death penalty for RG Kar rape ...

The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a PIL seeking the right to passive euthanasia for persons afflicted with rabies ...

In 2020, the Court issued notice to the Centre and sought responses from the ministries of health and environment on the ...