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  • Medicine or a Miracle?
  • 9/14/2012
  • (Northwest Herald) - Aug. 16 was circled on many calendars of those with children in District 200. It was the first day of a new school year, and not anything new or particularly special for most kids. But for Woodstock High School senior Morgan Hofmann, that Thursday was a milestone and a day his family feared might not come.
  • Sleeping Pill Awakens Unconscious Patient
  • 9/13/2012
  • (First Things) - Some time ago, doctors discovered that Ambien could bring apparently unconscious patients back to awareness, although the effect would sometimes fade as the drug wore off. A case in South Africa has repeated the phenomenon.
  • Eugenics Silently Returns to Germany
  • 9/12/2012
  • (Kurt Kondrich /LifeSiteNews.com) - This week I read a very disturbing article titled "New prenatal test is bringing eugenics back to Germany," and I could not help but think of the famous quote from American philosopher George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
  • New Battleground in Doctor-Assisted Suicide Debate
  • 9/11/2012
  • (Stateline) - "Right-to-die" advocates have mounted a high-profile initiative campaign in what might seem to be unlikely territory: heavily Catholic Massachusetts.
  • New Zealand Grants "Rights" to a River
  • 9/10/2012
  • (First Things) - I keep warning that this "nature rights" movement is beginning to bite, and people keep rolling their eyes. But New Zealand just granted rights to a river. From the New Zealand Herald story:
  • Fla. Warehousing Disabled Kids in Nursing Homes
  • 9/08/2012
  • (CBS/AP) - Federal investigators say Florida officials are violating federal law by unnecessarily warehousing hundreds of children with disabilities in geriatric nursing homes.
  • Planned Parenthood Insider Now Works for Assisted Suicide Group
  • 9/07/2012
  • (LifeNews.com) - When Compassion & Choices, formerly The Hemlock Society, convened its June 2012 conference, former Planned Parenthood insider Theresa Connor, now director of government affairs with the assisted suicide group, was a featured speaker.
  • NFL Funds Brain-Injury Study
  • 9/06/2012
  • (Wall Street Journal) - Opening night of the National Football League arrived Wednesday amid renewed discussion of head injuries and a $30 million grant provided by the NFL to study brain injuries and other sports-related health issues.
  • Flu Medicine May Help TBI Patients
  • 9/04/2012
  • (WLS) - An old medicine approved for a different ailment is bringing new hope to traumatic brain injury patients. Caused by car crashes, falls, or assaults, every year 1.7 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury. Now, something approved decades ago for a much different ailment is helping speed recovery for some.
  • Quadriplegic Finds Meaning in Life Despite Handicap
  • 9/02/2012
  • (Lake Stevens Journal) - Forty-five years ago, a teenager named Joni Eareckson dove into the shallow water of Chesapeake Bay. In seconds, her life changed from athletic to quadriplegic. She was paralyzed from her shoulders down, due to a broken neck.