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Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | 4 days ago
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A military judge in Texas has found a former Air Force nurse accused of killing three terminally ill patients not guilty of murder. Fontana has been in the Air Force since 2006 and served a tour in Iraq in 2007. He worked as an intensive care nurse at...
Tags: Ex-Air Force, Lackland Air Force Base, force nurse, ill patients, Michael Fontana, terminally ill, San Antonio, Military nurse, Fontana, Nurse, 59th Medical Wing, Fontana California, Nursing, Health Medical Pharma, Law Crime, War Conflict, Politics, Intensive-care medicine, Emergency medicine, Intensive care medicine, Homicide, Medical ethics, Euthanasia, ER, Terminal illness, Death, Palliative medicine, Disability rights
Africa: Palliative Care is Human Right for Terminally Ill - Panelists
Washington :: WA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Palliative Care (PC) is to relieve suffering, whether physical, spiritual or emotional, and to promote quality of life for the terminally ill.
Tags: terminally ill, palliative care, Washington, Terminal illness, Palliative medicine, Hospice, Death, Health Medical Pharma
Questions raised over Conn. license plate funds
Hartford :: CT :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Conn.— Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says more than $500,000 -- possibly more -- has been illegally diverted from funds raised from specialty license plates to the state's General Fund. Blumenthal says transferring money from those accounts, created...
Tags: Connecticut, license plate, Richard Blumenthal, ill patients, terminally ill
Judge disbelieves RCMP, acquits defendant
Montreal :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility An Abbotsford, B.C., father who left his two young children in a parked van in the midst of an August heat wave will not be charged. A man allegedly targeted for death by his ex-spouse speaks out about the startling case, claiming no one listened to...
Tags: The Vancouver Public Library, B.C, terminally ill, Canada, Montreal
Assisted suicide policy gets airing
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Guidance on assisted suicide gets first airing DPP sketches out interim policy on whether 'compassionate partners' would face prosecution Judge's ruled in Debbie Purdy's favour that the DPP must reveal how it approaches assisted suicide cases. Photograph:...
Tags: assisted suicide, Reuters Britain, ones assisted, terminally ill, Keir Starmer, commit suicide, guidance ones, debbie purdy, public prosecutions, law ones, United Kingdom, London
New York Post: BERNIE 'DYING' IN JAIL
Bernie :: MO :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Bernie Madoff had little to lose by confessing to masterminding the world's biggest Ponzi scheme -- he's dying of cancer, sources told The Post. Madoff, who is serving 150 years at a North Carolina federal lockup after pleading guilty to swindling more...
Tags: Bernard Madoff, Bernie Madoff, Mr. Madoff, Bernard L. Madoff, The New York Post, Ponzi, wall street, terminally ill, Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S
Aboriginal icon Donald Marshall Jr. dies
Halifax :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility N.S. â Donald Marshall Jr., the aboriginal man wrongfully convicted of murder whose case sparked an investigation into police discrimination, has died, according to media reports. Sources close to the family said Wednesday that Marshall, 55, had been...
Tags: Donald Marshall Jr., David Saul Marshall, N.S, icon donald, Sydney, native icon, Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Nova Scotia, Halifax, terminally ill
Nursing union no longer opposes assisted suicide
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has dropped its five-year opposition to the principle of assisted suicide after a consultation with its members. Almost half of the RCN members who responded said they supported assisted suicide, while two out of five...
Tags: assisted suicides, RCN, Royal College of Nursing, allow doctors, neutral stance, terminally ill, helping terminally
Blogger apologizes for baby hoax
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Blogger who lied about baby says she's sorry June 15, 2009 The Associated Press A Mokena woman says she's sorry for an elaborate Internet hoax in which she claimed to be pregnant with a terminally ill child. Beccah Beushausen, 26, posted a lengthy apology...
Tags: ill child, terminally ill
Protections sought for assisted suicide
Bradford :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility A former British Chancellor of the Exchequer says he will push to end threats of prosecution against family members of assisted suicide patients. Although family members of terminally ill patients who go from Britain to Switzerland to carry out assisted...
Tags: assisted suicides, sufferer debbie, terminally ill, Debbie Purdy
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