Alarmingly, the American Nursing Association adopted a policy in support of the right to commit VSED without intervention, stating, «A patient's decision regarding VSED is binding, even if the patient
subsequently loses capacity.»
A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative
capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was
subsequently lost in the course of evolution.