Date: 11/14/2008 By SHIRLEY S. WANGThe Wall Street Journal Brian Kammerer, the 45-year-old chief financial officer of a small hedge fund, called his wife one day from a cellphone in the men’s room of his Manhattan office building. A colleague had just asked him for something, he whispered, but he..
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Date: 11/13/2008 By ARIEL DAVIDAssociated Press Writer ROME (AP) _ Italy’s highest court ruled Thursday in favor of a man’s request to disconnect his daughter’s feeding tube and allow her to die after 16 years in a vegetative state. Courts, politicians and the Vatican have weighed in on the fate..
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Legal Comment: The below story about progress already being made in healthcare reform, in conjunction with the overwhelming consensus of the just completed campaign that some type of meaningful reform is coming, is the best of news for the disability community. Particularly important highlights are the proposal to eliminate the..
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Date: 11/10/2008 By DONNA BRYSONAssociated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) _ Researchers trying to create the world’s first malaria vaccine are launching a large medical trial as early as next month involving 16,000 children that could be the largest such trial ever conducted on children in Africa. British-drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC..
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Date: 11/8/2008 By DAVID B. CARUSOAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) _ A U.S. hospital has asked a judge for permission to stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious New York parents want to keep him on life support. Motl Brody of Brooklyn was pronounced dead..
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Date: 11/7/2008 Arizona health officials issue rabies warning PHOENIX (AP) _ Officials with the Arizona Department of Health Services say the state is on track to count a record number of rabies cases this year. They are warning people to take precautions to avoid being exposed to the fatal disease,..
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Date: 11/5/2008 By DENISE LAVOIEAssociated Press Writer SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) _ The younger sister of a girl who suffered a severe brain injury will testify that she saw her stepfather push the older girl down a flight of stairs, prosecutors said Tuesday. “She will tell you that this was the..
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Date: 11/2/2008 5:27 PM By MARY ESCHAssociated Press Writer WEST HEBRON, N.Y. (AP) — Jon Katz and companion Izzy, both wearing the photo IDs of hospice volunteers, are greeted brightly as they enter the dining room at Pleasant Valley Infirmary. While Katz chats and jokes with caretakers and residents seated..
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Date: 11/2/2008 5:28 PM By GREG RISLINGAssociated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ruben Navarro loved horror movies. He watched the “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Friday the 13th” series with his mother, Rosa, and liked to visit Knott’s Berry Farm when it was transformed every October to “Knott’s Scary..
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Date: 10/31/2008 BEIJING (AP) _ A Chinese mother who admitted poisoning and smothering her mentally ill daughter to death has been spared a jail sentence, state media reported Friday. Li Daohong fed her 20-year-old daughter, who suffered from brain paralysis, more than 200 sleeping pills in a Beijing hotel before..
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