Network News

  • Terri's Life & Hope Network January Newsletter!
  • 1/19/2012
  • (Life & Hope Newsletter) - We hope you had a wonderful and happy New Year. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who responded so generously to help support Terri's Life & Hope Network in 2011!
  • Pushing Euthanasia as the Rule
  • 1/18/2012
  • (Secondhand Smoke) - The Belgian medical establishment's enthusiastic embrace of euthanasia has been breathtaking and appalling to behold. Now a study is out stating that a euthanasia counseling service is being underutilized by Belgian doctors. From" Implementation of a service for physicians' consultation and information in euthanasia requests in Belgium," published in Health Policy:
  • Donations Enable Mom to Take Brain Injured Son Home
  • 1/17/2012
  • (Ledger) - Jay Vanbockel (pictured with his mother), the comatose teen injured just before Thanksgiving in a deadly auto accident near Lake Hamilton, will soon board a plane bound for St. Paul, Minn., to begin specialized therapy.
  • New Technologies in the Works to Detect Brain Injuries
  • 1/16/2012
  • (Pro Publica) - Traumatic brain injuries have been called the signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, affecting more than 155,000 men and women in uniform. But these traumas don't always have outward signs, making them difficult to diagnose.
  • Commission Recommends UK Permit Assisted Suicide
  • 1/15/2012
  • (The National) - A renewed drive in Britain to legalise assisted suicide has come too late for Simon Bray. The 54-year-old died last June in the arms of his wife and father, 15 months after he first began beseeching to be released from the agony of the cancers that were ravaging his body.
  • Miracle Fan Set to Meet Broncos Quarterback, Tim Tebow
  • 1/13/2012
  • (BostonHerald.com) - More than three years after a miracle spared his young life when he suffered a traumatic brain injury during a high school football scrimmage, Zack McLeod will be visited by a gridiron god.
  • Olympic Favorite Sustains Serious Head Injury in Training
  • 1/12/2012
  • (NY Times) - The potential danger presented by the high walls and slick sides of supersize halfpipes has come to the fore again, two years after the champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce sustained a traumatic head injury.
  • Tell Truth About Assisted Suicide On WA Death Certificates
  • 1/11/2012
  • (Secondhand Smoke) - Assisted suicide proposals are almost always profoundly disingenuous, as I have been illustrating for years. For example, in Washington, doctors who assist suicides are currently legally required to lie on death certificates. Rather than list the actual cause of death-assisted suicide-they are instead required to list the underlying disease-even though it didn't factually.
  • Brain-Injured Football Player Making Progress
  • 1/10/2012
  • (RGJ.com) - Zeth Shouse is attacking his rehabilitation from severe brain trauma with the same ferocity he displayed on the football field. There still is a long way to go for the Elko senior, but he made significant strides recently and is ahead of where many doctors thought he would be nearly four months after a blood clot in his brain ruptured, and he fell into a coma.
  • Brother to Testify Supporting New Hampshire Bill Recognizing March 31 as Day to Remember Terri Schiavo
  • 1/09/2012
  • (Christian Newswire) - On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 10:00 am, Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler is scheduled to testify in Concord, New Hampshire in support of HB 1147, a Bill to proclaim March 31 of each year as a day to remember Terri Schiavo.