Network News

  • The Brain's Amazing Potential for Recovery
  • 5/06/2011
  • (CNN) - In January, a bullet fired from point-blank range tore through her brain. Just last week, she was seen walking, albeit with effort, up the stairs of an airplane. Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is making a remarkable recovery after a gunshot wound to the brain, doctors say. Her case shows off the brain's capability to restore some functions after substantial injury, a phenomenon called "plasticity" that is helped by rehabilitation.
  • Wife Faces Life-or-Death Decision for Her War-Injured Husband
  • 5/05/2011
  • (Kansascity.com) - Doctors told Ivonne Thompson to prepare for the worst. Her husband might not survive the night. It was Aug. 9, and Navy Corpsman Anthony Thompson, a Houston native, had just undergone routine surgery to install a catheter. Hours after the operation, he started running a high fever and his blood pressure spiked.
  • Creator of Camp for Disabled Honored by Award
  • 5/04/2011
  • (The Record) - Catherine Carisi couldn't have looked more shocked if some stranger had handed her a check for $50,000. Which, in essence, was just what happened to her Tuesday. The 39-year-old Lodi resident was awarded the top prize in the 15th Annual Russ Berrie Awards for Making a Difference for her work with severely disabled children and young adults.
  • Cardinal Burke to Keynote Upcoming Conference on Catholic Care of the Disabled and Dying
  • 5/03/2011
  • (Christian Newswire) - St. Gianna Physician's Guild announced today, the feast of St. Gianna, that this summer they will be hosting a conference addressing the "Culture of Death" as it relates to end of life.
  • Media Pushes Suicide Assistance
  • 5/02/2011
  • (First Things) - This is disgusting. CBS LA News has glorified an elderly woman selling suicide kits as "death with dignity." From "91-Year-Old Grandma Sells Suicide Kits To Help Terminally Ill Die With Dignity":
  • "Shouldn't a Husband Lay Down His Life for His Wife?"
  • 4/30/2011
  • (Washington Post) - Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton have dominated news cycles for weeks as their wedding day approaches. The coverage recalled in my mind the events of five years ago, when my own daughter was married. I remember I had just received my royalty payment for some recent work when my good wife snatched it out of my hand, pronouncing "that will go for the wedding."
  • Outrage as 'How-to-Die Helpline' is Launched by Euthanasia Charity
  • 4/29/2011
  • (Daily Mail) - A right-to-die pressure group provoked outrage yesterday over plans to sponsor the UK's first helpline aimed at speeding the terminally ill towards 'a good death'. The free phone line, to be set up by a  charity called Compassion in Dying, will 'promote greater patient choice and control where possible'.
  • Brain Injuries Lead Firefighters Union to Create Health Plan
  • 4/28/2011
  • (news-press.com) - Two serious injuries to off-duty firefighters in recent years prompted the Cape Coral firefighter's union to establish a health care plan of its own, union officials told the city Tuesday in contract negotiations.
  • Hired Killer in Assisted Suicide Sentenced to Prison
  • 4/27/2011
  • (Reuters) - A man convicted of murder in what he called an assisted suicide was sentenced on Monday to 20 years to life in prison in the death of the New York motivational speaker who hired him. Kenneth Minor, 38, was found guilty in March of the murder of Jeffrey Locker, who was stabbed to death in a car in East Harlem in July 2009.
  • Nutrition May Help Treat Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 4/26/2011
  • (WebTV) - For service members wounded on the battlefield, nutrition appears to play a vital role in improving the outcome of traumatic brain injury, especially if it is administered soon after the injury occurs, according to a report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).