A doctor saw his page and put him on a life-prolonging drug.

Nor was he able to discover why children might be life-prolonging.

There's no way to tell why black patients more often received life-prolonging treatments.

But the elderly woman's family said she would not have wanted life-prolonging aid.

A1 A study cited enormous costs in life-prolonging cancer treatment.

The cancer had advanced beyond the possibility of life-prolonging surgery.

When he left civilization, life-prolonging medicine had been just a few decades old.

According to the study, however, the life-prolonging effect is not down to gene regulation, as has often been supposed in the past.

She's getting younger every minute as if the life-prolonging serum were just beginning to take effect!

However, not all individuals want to receive life-prolonging therapies for every health crisis.

The Florida courts found clear and convincing evidence that she would want the life-prolonging measures stopped.

Previous studies have shown that such patients often do not receive this potentially life-prolonging treatment.

Cancer patients who had high levels of religious coping were three times more likely to receive aggressive life-prolonging care.

Despite meeting the criteria, she is not hopeful of securing the life-prolonging drug.

Experts fear that cynical people will die when life-prolonging treatment is within their grasp.

And well over 1m Africans have been given life-prolonging anti-retroviral treatment.

With that she pulled out the capsule of life-prolonging serum.

The card would allow people to set out their wish to decline life-prolonging treatment, while able to express a view.

Correspondingly, patients have a legal right to refuse even potentially life-prolonging medical treatment.

Living longer with a snip File this under life-prolonging treatments few would want to try.

In remote areas, patients may have to travel 100 miles or more to clinics for such life-prolonging therapies.

In both cases, they used blood samples taken before life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy became common.

Rodrigo could not remember just when he had last received the life-prolonging serum but it was about 90 years before, Earth time.

Patient preferences to forgo life-prolonging treatment in hypothetical health states.

"Decisions to refuse life-prolonging treatment are always extremely difficult and emotive," he said.