Network News
- After Brain Injury, Oxygen Monitoring Vital, Study Finds
- 11/12/2011
- (HealthDay News) - Low oxygen supply (hypoxia) increases the risk of death and major disability in people who suffer a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), a new study finds. Brain oxygen levels were monitored in about 100 patients with TBI, most of whom had bleeding within the brain after serious blunt head trauma.
- Doctors Back Euthanasia in Severe Dementia Case
- 11/11/2011
- (Dutch News) - A 64-year-old woman suffering from severe senile dementia has become the first person in the Netherlands to be given euthanasia even though she could no longer express her wish to die, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday.
- Technique Spots Patients Misdiagnosed as Being in 'Vegetative State'
- 11/10/2011
- (Washington Post) - All the patients had the same terrible diagnosis: brain damage that marooned them in a "vegetative state" - alive but without any sense of awareness of themselves or the world around them.
- Introducing The Human Exceptionalist
- 11/09/2011
- (Secondhand Smoke) - My friends at the Discovery Institute are publishing a monthly on-line newsletter, edited by moi, called The Human Exceptionalist. It is the next step up for the Center for Human Exceptionalism, of which I am co-director. As readers of SHS know, I believe that anti humanism is one of the major challenges of our time that cuts across a broad array of issues that otherwise seem unconnected-such as, say assisted suicide and radical environmentalism.
- Shameful State Care of Developmentally Disabled
- 11/08/2011
- (Secondhand Smoke) - The New York Times has a sickening story on how badly helpless and vulnerable people with developmental disabilities are treated in state care. (This is an issue I have seen first hand, once caring for a developmentally disabled man who was terribly abused while in state care.) From, "In State Care, 1,200 Deaths and Few Answers":
- After Daughter's Medical Ordeal, a Call to Fight Health Care Rationing
- 11/07/2011
- (Collin Raye, Fox News) - When a family member is sick, all we want to do is make them feel better. When it's a child especially, nothing else matters in the whole world until they get well. We comfort them and seek medical help as quickly as possible.
- Battling to Understand Brain Injuries in Soldiers
- 11/05/2011
- (thestar) - When the dust settled, two soldiers were strewn along the Kandahar City street, a diplomat was dead and Pte. William Salikin was trapped inside what remained of the crumpled military jeep. It was 1:25 p.m. on Jan. 15, 2006.
- Georgia Should Fix Anti Assisted Suicide Statute
- 11/04/2011
- (Secondhand Smoke) - Readers of SHS may recall the indictment of Ted Goodwin and other Final Exit Network activists, accused of assisting the suicide of a man in remission from cancer who was distraught at his disfiguring surgery. The defendants challenged the indictment, denied by the Georgia Court of Appeals. That challenge is now to be decided by the state's supreme court.
- Beaten Giants Fan Bryan Stow Writes His Name
- 11/03/2011
- (LA Times) - Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who was brutally beaten at Dodger Stadium on opening day, has written his name, his family said Wednesday in an update on its website. "This picture speaks volumes and we are so proud of him," the family wrote on its blog, alongside a picture showing Stow's handwritten name. Stow continues to show improvement.
- Family in Court Over Future of Man on Feeding Tube
- 11/02/2011
- (Gazette.net) - A life-and-death battle is raging in Frederick County Circuit Court among family members of a man who is being kept alive by a feeding tube after suffering brain damage from a heart attack and seizures in July. Daniel Sanger, 55, is a patient at Frederick Memorial Hospital.
