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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• International Journal of Palliative Care Nursing 2009 (Vol. 15 No. 11)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 140
  Fade Fave: The role of the home-care worker in palliative and end-of-life care in the community setting: a literature review. Fade Skinny: Home-care workers play a vital role in enabling people to be cared for in their own homes. However, there is a lack of research on their role, especially in the areas of ...
  5 days ago

• A Soulful Song: Music Therapy In Hospice Care

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 698
  Add guitars and other musical instruments to the tools caregivers can use to help patients in hospice care. Thats what University of Alabama senior Sarah Pitts found when she brought her music therapy skills to patients in Hospice of West Alabama. "Weve gotten a lot of encouraging comments from families," says Pitts, ...
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• French National Assembly Rejects Euthanasia Bill by Wide Margin

  
  Hawaii Right to Life — Authority: 132
  By Hilary White PARIS, November 27, 2009 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The French National Assembly has rejected an attempt to legalize euthanasia in a 326 to 202 vote. "Euthanasia is not a medical act. The right to die is not a medical act," said Union for a Popular Movement party deputy Jean Leonetti, author of a 2005 ...
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• "OOPS!"

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  I almost killed an old lady the other day.  I have been volunteering at a nursing home for two years to visit with Suzanne, a 96-year-old woman who, despite being blind and crippled, was one of the most lucid, cultured and intelligent people on her unit, staff included. (See "Suzanne Takes You Down..." ) Until she ...
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• Medical Mistakes, Mishaps, and Miseries

  
  The 99th Monkey — Authority: 100
  I almost killed an old lady the other day.  I have been volunteering at a nursing home for two years to visit with Suzanne, a 96-year-old woman who, despite being blind and crippled, was one of the most lucid, cultured and intelligent people on her unit, staff included. (See "Suzanne Takes You Down..." ) Until she ...
  1 week ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• The Thrill Fades

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 519
  I see the thrill of Phil is fading fast. The latest Colmar Brunton poll sees him sliding down four points to 5%. That’s barely above the margin of error. I don’t think I recall even Bill English ever dipping below double figures in a Colmar Brunton poll. And Labour is now on 31%, which is about where Bill had ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Fighting Prostate Cancer – Part 2

  
  King Valley to Euroa Online — Authority: 124
  Click jmage for the Index of Gregs Prostate Cancer Chronicles Being a Blogger, I found it easy to write about my experiences and I soon felt confident in discussing the problems as they arose.  This created a chain of events that saw me achieve remission. The first link in the chain was Brad Worrell, the ...
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• Remembering loved ones lost

  
  The Border Watch — Authority: 441
  People who have lost loved ones in recent years are urged to attend a poignant church service in Mount Gambier on Friday night to reflect on their loss. Organised by the South East Regional Community Health Service Palliative Care Unit, the non-denominational church service will be held at Christ Church on Bay Road ...
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• The Cost of Dying

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 479
  It’s a profoundly sad commentary on the “debate” about healthcare in the U.S. Congress that the pivotal issue of “end-of-life” medical care can no longer be discussed without invoking ridiculously offensive terminology such as “Death Panels” (thanks Sarah Palin!). In this regard, last night’s edition ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hospice Care is a Gift for the Living

  
  SandwichINK.com — Authority: 424
  Hospice Care. If you’re not familiar with them, the words might not mean much to you. Or perhaps they send shudders down your spine since you know they deal with death and dying. Really though, hospice is about living. It’s about living peacefully while God allows you to finish your time here on earth, before He ...
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• QUALITY: Dying Well Beats Dying Badly. And Expensively

  
  Health Policy Program: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 133
  As weve written a lot on end of life care, we notice when others do the same.  NPRs Joseph Shapiro this week reported on La Crosse, WI where 96 percent of the adults who die have an advanced directive. That extraordinarily high figure arises from the innovations and commitment from Gundersen Lutheran hospital. ...
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• Doctors Debate: Should City Aid Growth in Palliative Care?

  
  City Room — Authority: 785
  Two New York City doctors, the head of the citys largest public hospital and a nationally known geriatrician, gently clashed at a City Council hearing to discuss how to deal with the growing demand for end-of-life care.
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• (NIGERIA) Physician Selected for International Leadership Program

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 125
  SAN DIEGO – Dr. Folaju Olusegun Oyebola, of NIGERIA has been selected as one of twenty-two palliative care physician leaders to participate in the first cohort of the new International Palliative Care Leadership Development Initiative (LDI). Dr. Oyebola will be receiving mentoring and opportunities to enhance ...
  3 weeks ago

• International Physicians Selected for Leadership Program

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 125
  (SAN DIEGO) – Across the globe from Africa to Asia to Eastern Europe to Latin America, twenty-two emerging palliative care physician leaders have been selected to participate in the first cohort of the new International Palliative Care Leadership Development Initiative (LDI). Led by The Institute for Palliative ...
  3 weeks ago

• Journal Of Hospice Palliative Nursing Names New Editor

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 151
    Journal Of Hospice & Palliative Nursing Names New Editor
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• Journal Of Hospice & Palliative Nursing Names New Editor

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 698
  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is pleased to announce that the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) has appointed Betty Ferrell, PhD, MA, FAAN, FPCN, as the new editor of The Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing.
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  3 weeks ago

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