Germany ponders on changing assisted suicide laws

Western world has had conflicting views on Euthanasia and assited suicide. To a certain extent, some forms of euthanasia are legal in Belgium, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the U.S. state Oregon. Debates now goes to Germany where a former politician helped an...

112 Preventable Deaths at State Mental Hospital

What is the Conservative Argument against state run healthcare, Read this story by  investigatve reporters at the Atlanta Journal Constitution.  You may understand the rational behind the view....

City Questions 9/11 Workers’ Claims of Illness

Nearly 10,000 workers who are suing New York City and its contractors for working at the ground zero site have had their medical records released today, and the outcome is that many are not as sick as their...

Ex-Manson Follower Seeks Compassionate Release

California's longest-serving prison inmate, a former follower of Charles Manson, is seeking a compassionate release due to failing health. Convicted of the murder of Sharon Tate, Susan Atkins has fewer than six months to live." Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings...

Ex-Manson follower seeks release from prison as she has six months to live

Susan Atkins, former Manson follower and convicted murderer of Sharon Tate and four others, has requested to be released from prison on 'compassionate release' as she has less than six months to live.I say.......

Zimbabwe’s Relief Ban Harms People With HIV

"June 10, 2008 Zimbabwe’s Relief Ban Harms People With HIV  In the aftermath of  Zimbabwe’s government recent suspension of humanitarian relief efforts, many nongovernment organizations (NGOs) that had been offering AIDS services in the...

LITTLE Rhys Harris is bursting with life

" LITTLE Rhys Harris is bursting with life - after two months as the "boy in the bubble" fighting an incredibly rare illness. The brave seven-year-old is only the SECOND child in the world to be cured of the...

Do celebrity breakdowns normalize mental illness?

Celebrities' often very public struggles with mental illness are making crazy the new black, according to a feature in today's Globe and Mail.On the one hand I think it's great if the exposure diminishes the...

Fashion king Saint Laurent dies

" Fashion king Saint Laurent dies Yves Saint Laurent was a major name in 20th Century fashion Yves...

Mental health care cost 'to double'

The high costs associated with long-term and intensive psychotherapy and extended hospital stays in England and Wales requires more investment to help people get back to work. Some who have severe illness face...

Finding Hope in Hip-Hop

" I believe in hip-hop. And being a white girl born and raised in the whitest conditions, it surprises me that I've come to this belief — especially since I used to hate this music. My husband, Adam, would try to play it in his car while we were dating, and I hated it so...

How 'Reynolds EZ Slide' helped Parkinson's patient in her daily life

Comments to my short stories come in many flavors!A recent one from Linda touched me by reminding me that in our age of disposable products, mundane ones such as the now discontinued Reynolds EZ Slide plastic wrap can actually if not change the life of people affected by an...

MP Gwyneth Dunwoody dies

Gwyneth Dunwoody, a truly legendary member of parliament in the UK, has passed away at the age of 77."Labour's longest serving woman MP, Gwyneth Dunwoody, who had a reputation for fierce independence, has died....

Missing teenage beauty queen is found in London

"A TEENAGE beauty queen has been reunited with her parents after vanishing for nine days with a man she met on a social networking website. The family of Kovi Dunbar, 17, blamed cruel jibes at school about an illness which altered her looks, after she disappeared from her...

Man Fatally Stabbed in Arizona Mall

Acknowledged schizophrenic Bernard Allen has admitted to the fatal stabbing of a man in an Arizona shopping mall."Something seemed wrong with Bernard Allen as he went to the register and asked for a butcher's knife. Employees at the store noted Allen was acting strangely,...
 

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