Australian Medical Board bans prominent euthanasia doctor

Prominent Australian right-to-die doctor Philip Nitschke on Thursday vowed to continue giving advice on how to end life after the Australian Medical Board used emergency powers to suspend him. The ruling — an interim measure pending the outcome of an inquiry — follows the suicide of Perth man Nigel Brayley who died in May after communicating with Nitschke. Brayley died after taking euthanasia drug Nembutal, which he illegally imported. Police were treating her death as murder and Brayley was reportedly being investigated about his involvement, although he was never named as a suspect.