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  • Inducing Hypothermia During Medical Emergencies
  • 8/22/2011
  • (LA Times) - Avery Reynolds was born with barely a whimper, black and blue from lack of oxygen, on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. The umbilical cord encircled her legs. Doctors wrapped her in a cold blanket to induce hypothermia.
  • Elderly Couple Refuse Food, Water to Die; Get Evicted from Facility
  • 8/21/2011
  • (ABC News) - At 92 and 90, Armond and Dorothy Rudolph's bodies were failing them. He suffered severe pain from spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal column. She was almost entirely immobile. Both suffered from early dementia, according to their son Neil Rudolph. They wanted to die.
  • Massachusetts Voters Facing Assisted Suicide Showdown
  • 8/20/2011
  • (Patriot Ledger) - It didn't take Roy Almeida more than a minute to shape an opinion about whether people with a terminal illness should have a legal right to kill themselves with lethal medications.
  • Bicyclist Drawing Attention to Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 8/19/2011
  • ‎(Philadelphia Inquirer) - Doug Markgraf was riding into Philadelphia when a hit-and-run driver left him for dead at 55th Street and Lancaster Avenue. After 14 days in a coma, he awoke with a few broken bones, a brain injury, and an incredible, intense, single desire. "If I can ever ride a bike again," he said to himself, "I'm going to ride as far as I can."
  • B.C. Supreme Court Tosses Out Challenge to Assisted-Suicide Law
  • 8/18/2011
  • (Vancouver Sun) - The Farewell Foundation's attempt to challenge the section of the Criminal Code banning assisted suicide has been tossed out by a B.C. Supreme Court judge. Justice Lynn Smith ruled the foundation did not have a strong enough case to challenge the law, saying anonymous members of the group must identify themselves in order to prove the law directly affects them.
  • 'Once Proud' System Failing, Fractured, Report Says
  • 8/17/2011
  • (Vancouver Sun) - Cancelled surgeries. Patients who need hospital care but who can't get it. Families forced to sell their homes to pay for an autistic child's treatment.
  • Louisiana Police: Father Confesses to Decapitating Special-Needs Son
  • 8/16/2011
  • (CNN) - A 7-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and other disabilities including not being able to speak was decapitated, and his biological father has confessed to the killing, police in Thibodaux, Louisiana, said Monday.
  • Hospitalists Releasing Patients Sooner, But Also Sicker?
  • 8/15/2011
  • (First Things) - There may really be no such thing as a magic bullet, but hospitalists were supposed to be the medical equivalent. Unfortunately, a new study casts significant doubts that the system is working as well as hoped. First, a little background: In hospital treatment used to be directed by a patient's primary care physician, who would be responsible for admission, directing sub specialist care, and discharge.
  • Summer is Prime Time for Head Injuries
  • 8/14/2011
  • (hometownlife.com) - Summer brings more children out to the sports fields and arenas. With the new school year on deck we will see many more youngsters getting into sports. The increased number of contact sports and the number of kids playing those increases each year in our Farmington/Farmington Hills areas and, with it, the risk of injury.
  • Rep. Giffords' Ordeal Puts Focus on Coverage
  • 8/12/2011
  • (Stltoday.com) - From the critical moments after she suffered a gunshot wound to the head in January to her triumphant return to Congress last week for a vote on the debt limit deal, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords owes her recovery in no small part to veterans with similar injuries. Doctors and rehabilitation specialists have learned a great deal from the treatment of traumatic brain injuries in veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.