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  • Should Doctors Tell the Non Terminal Elderly When They Will Die?
  • 12/31/2011
  • (Secondhand Smoke) - I find it odd that learned medical commentators would think that octogenarians and nonagenarians would not be aware that their time is growing short. Of course they do!
  • Parents Speak Out on Catastrophic Youth Sports Injuries
  • 12/30/2011
  • (HealthDay News) - On Aug. 22, 2008, sophomore Matt Gfeller, 15, played in his first varsity high school football game at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, N.C. "We were all there," Lisa Gfeller, his mother, recalled. "There's a sort of privilege in that."
  • Collin Raye: This is Who I Am
  • 12/29/2011
  • (WND) - Country music star Collin Raye doesn't just sing his heart out, he also wears his heart on his sleeve. As spokesman for the Terri Schiavo Hope & Life Network, Raye boldly defends the fundamental human right to life and calls people to political action.
  • Mitochondria Key to Treating Brain Injuries
  • 12/28/2011
  • (KABC) - It's the number-one cause of death and disability in children, killing more kids than cancer or any other disease: Every year, 475,000 children under age 14 suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Now new discoveries are giving kids a better shot at survival. A horrific accident changed Joe Detwiler's life in an instant.
  • Life is a Gift: Conference to Discuss Euthanasia
  • 12/27/2011
  • (Michigan Catholic) - Seven years ago, Bobby Schindler's life changed as he watched his sister fight for hers. Terri Schiavo had suffered severe brain damage several years earlier after entering cardiac arrest in her St. Petersburg, Fla., home, but that wasn't what was threatening to take her life.
  • Veterans Bring the War Home
  • 12/26/2011
  • (Chicago Tribune) - It was just after midnight when former Marine Cpl. James Dahan was awakened by a faint noise in the distance. Except for the glare of his flashlight, there was darkness all around as he crept from room to room, searching for an unknown enemy. Windows sealed: check. Doors locked: check. Building secure: check.
  • Merry Christmas from the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network
  • 12/24/2011
  • Christmas 2011 - On behalf of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network and the Schindler Family, we would like wish all of our friends and benefactors a very Blessed Christmas and a joyous New Year.
  • Comatose Man Not Really 'Poised to Be an Organ Donor'
  • 12/23/2011
  • (Secondhand Smoke) - I bring this up because it is getting some mistaken play in the blogosphere. An apparently unconscious man was awake and aware after surgery. Great news, but why is that a national story? Because ABC more than intimated he was about to become an organ donor when he suddenly awoke. From the Good Morning America story:
  • Country Star Wanted Newest Album to Sound 'Like You Were in Church'
  • 12/22/2011
  • (Catholic Review) - Collin Raye, the Catholic country singer who had a string of hits in the 1990s, said he wanted to make his latest album "feel like you were in church for an hour or so."
  • US Woman Helped Aucklander's Suicide
  • 12/21/2011
  • (msn.nz) - An American woman travelled to Auckland four years ago to help a woman take her own life, but police cannot bring her here to face assisted suicide charges. Audrey Wallis, 49, was found dead in her Auckland flat in August 2007. She was not terminally ill but believed to be depressed and suffering health problems from an addiction to prescribed medications.