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- Arrests Made After 4 Disabled Adults Found Locked in Room
- 10/17/2011
- (AP) - Three people have been charged after police found four mentally disabled adults chained in the basement of a northeast Philadelphia apartment building with only a container of orange juice as nourishment.
- Elderly Condemned to Early Death by Secret Use of DNR Orders
- 10/16/2011
- (The Telegraph) - The orders - which record an advance decision that a patient's life should not be saved if their heart stops - are routinely being applied without the knowledge of the patient or their relatives.
- Giants Fan Making Halting Progress, Family Says
- 10/15/2011
- (SFGate.com) - Bryan Stow, the Giants fan who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a beating outside Dodger Stadium, has settled in at a rehabilitation center, where he is making progress but at times shows signs of confusion, according to his family.
- Brain Injury Doesn't Stop Utah Singer from Following Dream
- 10/14/2011
- (Salt Lake Tribune)* *- In 1998, Laurent Neu was riding his motorcycle home from his brother's Fourth of July party. As the University of Utah senior neared the intersection of State Street and 4100 South, he was hit by a driver as she made a lane change.
- Suicide Crisis in Pro Suicide (For Some) Oregon
- 10/13/2011
- (First Things) - Portland is experiencing a suicide crisis. From the Oregonian story: "The number of suicides in Oregon - which has a suicide rate 35 percent higher than the national average - keeps climbing. According to the state's violent death report, there were 566 suicides in 2008, 641 in 2009 and preliminary figures show 670 in 2010.
- Evidence Lacking That Cognitive Rehab Therapy Helps Brain-Injured Vets
- 10/12/2011
- (HealthDay News) - Studies on the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation therapy for traumatic brain injury are plagued by design problems, a new report issued by the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) finds.
- Dr. Death Suicide Machine Up for Auction
- 10/11/2011
- (Reuters) - The "death machine" used by the late Dr. Jack Kevorkian in his controversial campaign to help more than 100 people commit suicide will be among his paintings and other items up for auction this month, the sale's coordinator said.
- Teen Overcomes Brain Injury to Continue 4-H Work
- 10/10/2011
- (Lancaster Gazette) - The fact that high school sophomore Shelby Stalder can perform in her band's color squad, care for her lambs Biggie and Smalls, or even just walk down to the barn on her grandparents' property is something that never fails to amaze her mother, Christy Stalder.
- Assisted Suicide is the Euthanasia of Hope
- 10/09/2011
- (Secondhand Smoke) - Legalized assisted suicide costs us the presence of good people, who had they been given emotional support to help them not commit suicide in their time of health extremis, would be so glad to be alive.
- Obamacare: Government Takeover of Healthcare Continues
- 10/08/2011
- (First Things) - This must end. "Experts" are advising bureaucrats to continue seizing control of the entire American health care system. Now, the Feds are preparing to centrally dictate coverage terms for private policies across the nation.
