Network News

  • 'Rhinestone Cowboy' Will Sparkle at The Egg
  • 5/24/2012
  • (Saratogian) - Thursday night, Glen Campbell will bring his "Goodbye Tour" to The Egg in Albany. So many farewell tours do so well at the box office that the next year they go back on the road as the "I Really Mean It This Time Farewell Tour."
  • A Country Music Superstar Speaks Out For Life
  • 5/23/2012
  • (Celebrate Life Magazine) - Country music superstar Collin Raye did two daring things in the past year: He recorded an album of Christian hymns and became the national spokesman for the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, which works to prevent the disabled and those in life-threatening situations from becoming victims of euthanasia.
  • Fr. Pacholczyk: The Hidden Power In Our Suffering
  • 5/22/2012
  • (Cathollic Herald) - In a 1999 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients with serious illness were asked to identify what was most important to them during the dying process. Many indicated they wanted to achieve a "sense of control." This is understandable.
  • Songs May Hold Key for Injured Brains
  • 5/21/2012
  • (theage.com.au) - Music can help patients with severe traumatic brain injury unlock memories from their past, a new study has shown. In a case presented at the World Congress for Neurorehabilitation in Melbourne this week, clinical neuropsychologist Aimee Baird played 50 songs to a patient who suffered a brain injury in a motorbike accident in 2010.
  • Obamacare: The States Continue to Revolt
  • 5/19/2012
  • (First Things) - Never in my life have I seen such widespread formal resistance by the states to a federal law than we have witnessed with Obamacare. Even during the Civil Rights struggles, there were far fewer states in revolt than we see now.
  • Physician's Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment: Helpful or a New Threat?
  • 5/18/2012
  • (National Catholic Registry) - A patient in a nursing home or hospital is increasingly likely to be asked to sign a form with a benign-sounding name: Physician's Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment.
  • Immune Cells Revive Woman in Coma
  • 5/17/2012
  • (MSNBC) - Researchers from the University of Munich recently reported that they were able to awaken an 82-year-old woman who'd been in a persistent vegetative state by using injections of her own immune cells.
  • Terri's Life & Hope Network Newsletter!
  • 5/16/2012
  • May 16, 2012 - As you might have read, last week we issued a press release that the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network has moved its headquarters to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • War, Combat Provide Opportunity to Advance Medicine
  • 5/15/2012
  • (Deseret News) - It is a lamentable but undeniable fact that wars are a great boon to medical research. Some historians suggest that modern medicine has its roots in the Civil War, with the development of protocols to remove the wounded quickly from the battlefield to special military aid stations, to new surgical methods, to successful treatments for gangrene - and even developments as simple as sterilized instruments and surgeons washing their hands.
  • 'Futile Care' Duty To Die May Be Coming To A Hospital Near You
  • 5/14/2012
  • (Dailey Caller) - When a Canadian man named Hassan Rasouli suffered complications after brain surgery, his doctors wanted to pull the plug. But his Muslim family said no. It was against Hassan's values, and moreover, they believed he showed signs of improvement.