Network News
- 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.
- Traumatic Brain Injuries on the Rise in Youth
- 10/07/2011
- (Examiner.com) - If your child's favorite sport is bowling, you should consider yourself lucky. It is other activities, especially high school football, that the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reports are sending a growing number of children to the emergency room with concussions and other traumatic brain injuries.
- Terri's Life & Hope Network October Newsletter!
- 10/06/2011
- (Terri's Network) - In case you might have missed the exciting news, Country music star, Collin Raye, has joined the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network as national spokesman! Collin is going to join us in our efforts to be a voice for the cognitively impaired and those at risk of euthanasia.
- Baby Joseph's Parents Say 'Shame on Doctors'
- 10/05/2011
- (CBC News) - The parents of Baby Joseph Maraachli, the terminally ill Windsor, Ont., baby who drew international attention during a lengthy right-to-life case before he died last week, say they will not have any more children.
