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  • 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.
  • Brain Injury Aftermath: Family Struggles as Loved One is Shuffled From Hospitals
  • 1/08/2012
  • (Northwest Herald) - On a sunny morning almost one year ago, Kurt Cleveland strapped three Easter baskets to the back of his Harley-Davidson. He left his Marengo home and headed to Crystal Lake for a visit with his daughter and grandchildren on the holiday. He never made it home.
  • Left Media Defends Santorum in Dead Baby Grieving Brouhaha
  • 1/07/2012
  • (Secondhand Smoke) - Disgust was widespread in the attacks against Rick Santorum and his wife for taking their dead baby home to allow the family to grieve his death together. Washington Post liberal columnist Eugene Robinson gratuitously brought the issue up on the Rachel Maddow show:
  • Recovering Teen Thanks Midway Fire for Saving Life
  • 1/06/2012
  • (Gulf Breeze News) - Gulf Breeze teen Whitney Jones and her family just had the best Christmas of her life two months after she survived a near-fatal automobile accident. On Christmas Day, Jones, 17, and her mother, Sherry, paid a visit to the guardian angels at Midway Fire Department who saved her life.
  • Assisted Suicide Report Worthless Says SPUC
  • 1/05/2012
  • (SPUC) - Lord Falconer's report on assisted suicide is worthless, said anti-euthanasia group SPUC Pro-Life. SPUC Pro-Life has played a leading role in resisting the assisted suicide movement in the courts. The report by a self-styled commission funded by pro-death activists amounts to a renewed attack on the legal status of disabled and elderly people.
  • Ramesh Ponnuru: Tongue-Depressor Tax Will Harm Jobs, Innovation
  • 1/04/2012
  • (Bloomberg.com) - A year from now, the federal government will start collecting a new tax on medical devices from tongue depressors to imaging machines, thanks to the sweeping health-care overhaul that Democrats enacted in the spring of 2010. People in the industry say it's already having an effect. In November, citing the new tax, Stryker Corp. (SYK), whose products include artificial hips and knees, announced that it would let go about 1,000 of its workers.
  • Family Tribute to Nurse Who Helped Save Their Son
  • 1/02/2012
  • (DailyEcho) - With their son fighting for his life after a horror car crash which killed his girlfriend, they were told to say their goodbyes. Suffering from serious brain injuries, Ben Wagon was never expected to wake up and if by some miracle he did, his parents were warned he would probably have significant brain damage.
  • Assisted Suicide Still a No-Go in Aloha State
  • 1/01/2012
  • (OneNewsNow) - In spite of proponents' unique approach to legalize it, Hawaii's ban on doctor-assisted suicide remains in place. Supporters of assisted suicide tried to use a 1909 law that permits the use remedies not typically authorized for terminally ill patients, but Hawaii Attorney General David Louie has responded in a legal opinion that the state law "does not authorize physicians to assist terminally ill patients with dying."