News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 25 days ago
Operation on Baby RB would not help, doctor tells life-support hearing Consultant says even with a tracheostomy, child would 'lead sad and pitiful existence' on artificial ventilator for life Press Association A severely disabled baby boy at the...
News Source: The Scotsman
| 26 days ago
Court judge yesterday began the task of deciding whether a baby boy with an active brain locked inside an immobile body should live or die. Doctors caring for the boy, who are backed by his mother, say he will lead a "miserable, sad and pitiful...
News Source: Times Online
| 26 days ago
Doctors, supported by mother, want to withdraw life support from the year-old boy, known only as Baby RB...The father, who is separated from his wife, is fighting the doctors’ application. Michael Mylonas, for the NHS trust, said that Baby RB, who...
News Source: The Australian
| 26 days ago
The couple, who have separated amicably, have taken their case to the Family Division of London's High Court. The court was told Baby RB suffered breathing difficulties within minutes of birth last year as the result of rare congenital myasthenic...
News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 26 days ago
Parents clash in court over taking child off life support • Mother and hospital back ending baby's suffering • Father argues operation would improve situation A mother supporting a legal attempt to take her severely disabled baby boy off the...
News Source: CNN
| 26 days ago
The mother sides with doctors and favors disconnecting the baby's respirator. The father took the case to the High Court in London to stop them. The child's life is "miserable, sad and pitiful," lawyers for the hospital said in court Monday. They say...