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Canada Halts Plan to Allow Medically Assisted Death for the Mentally Ill

7 octobre 2026 à 14:36
People who have mental illness alone will not qualify for assisted death, but patients who have other conditions and expect to have a cognitive decline can make an advanced request.

© Blair Gable/Reuters

Sean Fraser, Canada’s minister of justice, said parliament will pass legislation to bar people whose sole condition is a mental illness from seeking medically assisted death.

Can Artificial Intelligence Learn the Art of Surgery?

7 octobre 2026 à 05:00
Canada wants to leverage A.I. to improve its health care system. At a Toronto hospital, surgeons are training a machine to distinguish a safe incision from a catastrophic one.

© Cole Burston for The New York Times

Dr. Madani, left, and Dr. Timothy Jackson, perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery on a patient at Toronto General Hospital, with the help of visual A.I. guides.
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