Results for: Medical Procedures
1: Court rules doctors can operate on baby’s brain, despite parents’ objection | July 13, 2018
A baby suffering from a severe form of epilepsy will undergo brain surgery in a bid to stop his seizures, despite refusal for the procedure by the baby’s parents, after the Supreme Court ruled it was in the child’s best interests…
2: IVF parents lose $10m wrongful birth case, hit with legal costs | May 6, 2013
The parents of a severely disabled NSW boy have lost their $10 million damages case against an IVF specialist who failed to properly warn them of the likelihood their son would inherit a rare blood clotting condition…
3: Court Refuses Ventilator for Terminally ill Baby | January 21, 2013
A NSW Supreme Court judge has refused a parental request for a terminally ill baby to be placed on a mechanical ventilator, in a case he described as “one of the saddest” imaginable…