The weird tale of Samuel Israel III began on July 27, 2005 when he sent a letter to investors in his $450 million hedge fund called Bayou Management. The fund was shutting down but they'd get their money back. But when investors called his Stamford, CT office, they got a...
Many patients attempting or committing suicide consult their general practitioner GP in the preceding period, indicating that GPs might play an important role in prevention. The aim of the study is to analyze the epidemiology of suicidal behavior in Dutch General Practice in order to find possible clues for prevention....
This book marshals philosophical, moral, medical, historical, and theological arguments in support of the Roman Catholic position against suicide. In a comprehensive study of the history of suicide, the author shows that Christian civilization was one of only a few early societies that was able to bring suicide under control....
SEOUL, Aug 4 Asia Pulse - Shock reverberated among affiliates of Hyundai Group Monday upon the news that Chung Mong-hun committed suicide by jumping from the window of his 12th-floor office. SEOUL, Aug 4 Asia Pulse - Shock reverberated among affiliates of Hyundai Group...
Sep. 19--A federal advisory panel will decide today whether studies are needed to establish a definitive link between suicide and Accutane, the widely used acne medication sold by Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. Sep. 19--A federal advisory panel will decide today whether studies are needed to...
As a faculty member at a university teaching hospital and a psychologist who specializes in treating mood disorders and suicidal behavior, I believe that the themes and arguments of Derek Humphry and the Hemlock Society oversimplify the important social debate about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. For example, Hemlock Society material...
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Carmel Hill Center for the Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Illness at Columbia University recommends that parents add a mental health check-up to the annual ritual of getting their teens equipped for the neNEW YORK, Aug. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The...
While the antidepressant market is both robust and lucrative, as we saw in part 1 of this three-part series, it is also controversial. No drug category is so dogged by doubts and questions, and yet so widely prescribed, as antidepressants. The most recent major event in the...
Selling Physician-Assisted Suicide For Big SavingsRE: Selling Physician-Assisted Suicide For Big SavingsI can't believe what I just read. This is sick.
Somehow I managed to miss the fuss back in July when the Oregon Health Plan -- the state's medical-coverage plan for low-income residents -- told cancer patient Barbara Wagner that it wouldn't cover the expensive drug Tarceva, but that it would pay for palliative care, including "physician-assisted suicide." (In the...
British troops using Apache attack helicopters killed a key Taliban leader and up to 10 members of his cell during an operation in Helmand Province last June 26 with an intelligence-led, precision missile strike carried out by members of 664 Army Air Corps. The attack took place 10 kilometres north...
Safe Communities Canada announced today that The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, based in Windsor Nova Scotia, was named as the 2008 recipient of its National Ambassador for Safety Community Service Partner Award. The Ambassador for Safety Community Service Partner Award recognizes a community group, government entity or charitable organization...
SHE IS the hugging saint - a spiritual teacher who will embrace up to 50,000 people a day. Mata Amritanandamayi is said to have taken more than 30 million people around the world in her arms over the past three decades as she spreads the word of compassion. ...
The death of a 3-year-old boy in an August personal watercraft accident on the Feather River has been compounded by the apparent suicide of the man charged in his death. Allan John Minkema, 50, of Yuba City was scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning in Sutter County...
THE HEAD of Scotland Yards counter-terrorist branch at the time of the attacks on London in July 2005 told yesterday how his teenage son narrowly missed being caught up in the bombings on July 7. Peter Clarke told the inquest into the death of Jean Charles De...
NCIS (7 p.m., Ch. 2): The investigation into a Navy lieutenant's suicide leads in a dangerous direction. House (7 p.m., Ch. 13): House digs up more dirt on everyone on his team. 90210 (7 p.m., Ch. 30): A producer offers Angie a chance to...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Suicide attacks have killed nearly 1,200 people in Pakistan since July 2007, most of them civilians, according to military statistics Monday that underscored the ferocity of the threat facing the U.S. ally in the war on extremist groups. Meanwhile, heavy fighting between Pakistani troops...
A former attorney for Heath Ledger is suing over a $10 million life insurance policy he claims has gone unpaid since the actor's death earlier this year. Attorney John S. LaViolette sued Minnesota-based ReliaStar Life Insurance Co. in July, claiming the company is trying to avoid paying...
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