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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Life, Suffering and Death

  
  Dr Roy's Thoughts — Authority: 562
  I recently attended a lecture given by Dr Jose Periera . The lecture was called Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Pandora’s Box? Dr Pereira is a prominent professor of palliative care. He actually worked at a hospital in Switzerland which allowed doctor assisted suicide. definitions: Euthanasia is a doctor( ...
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• International Journal of Palliative Nursing 2009 (Vol. 15 No. 10)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 148
  International Journal of Palliative Nursing 2009 (Vol. 15 No. 10) Contents Fade Fave: Using play therapy in paediatric palliative care: listening to the story and caring for the body Fade Skinny: Palliative care for children must address more than pain control and symptom management. Parents and caregivers ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• The Dementia End of Life Care Project (DeLCaP) – Supporting families caring for people with late stage dementia at home

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  The Dementia End of Life Care Project (DeLCaP) – Supporting families caring for people with late stage dementia at home, Dementia, Vol. 8, No. 3, 349-361 (2009) Chris Ghiotti Redbridge Dementia Partnership, UK Abstract: This article describes the development of a locally based project funded by ...
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• India: Provide Access to Pain Treatment

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 686
  (New Delhi) - Hundreds of thousands of patients in India unnecessarily experience excruciating pain, Human Rights Watch said in a report today. Restrictive drug regulations, lack of training for health care workers, and poorly integrated care result in needless suffering for patients because they cannot get ...
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• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
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• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
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• Patients In US 5 Times More Likely To Spend Last Days In ICU Than Patients In England

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Patients who die in the hospital in the United States are almost five times as likely to have spent part of their last hospital stay in the ICU than patients in England. Whats more, over the age of 85, ICU usage among terminal patients is eight times higher in the U.S.
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• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
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• Gallup poll: Should marijuana be legalized?

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 534
  October 23, 2009Gallup video changing views on legalization of marijuana. He actually uses the word “hippies”.DOJ isn’t about to legalize marijuana but they are going to leave the medical marijuana folks alone.Should marijuana be legal?1969 YES 12%2009 YES 44%Legal/not legalRep 28-70Ind 49-50Dem 54-4519-29 ...
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• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
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• Holder: leave medical marijuana users alone

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 534
  October 19, 2009Sanity prevails. Medical marijuana users and distributors will be left alone. Bush’s policy ignored state laws, which allowed medical marijuana use. barry looks like he’s going to let the state’s handle it themselves and step in only when state and federal law is violated.DOJ MEMO:This memorandum ...
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• Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...
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• When Your Significant Other Overrides Your Living Will

  
  Better Health — Authority: 602
  He knew she was angry with him. “Whenever I come to see her, I reach out and take her hand, but she looks away.” Husband and wife for well over 50 years, they had been through a lot.  They met in another country in another time, and to hear him tell it, it almost seemed fated that they’d end up together.  ...
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• Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  The jury in the Sydney trial of a man accused of killing cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has reached a verdict on one of two charges. Mark Wilhelm, 37, was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug after Ms Brimbles body was found in his cabin on board the Pacific Sky cruise ship in September ...
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• Laying low, but staying busy

  
  breathinstephen.com — Authority: 118
  Nothing really interesting going on since I got out of the hospital. Though Ive taken a couple of short slow walks, overall Ive been trying to let my lungs heal as much as possible before jumping back into a physical fitness regimen full time. Been spending a lot of this post hospital recovery time doing non physical ...
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• Pakistan army advances on Taliban

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  The Pakistani military has suffered its first casualties in the opening exchanges of a major offensive launched against Taliban militants in their stronghold of South Waziristan. Four soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded as about 30,000 troops supported by tanks, artillery , fighter jets and helicopter gunships ...
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• Cyclist raises money and awareness for palliative care program

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 140
  Dr. Gregory Grammelspacher of Indianapolis, Indiana is taking part in the cross-country “Ride to Remember” with 13 other cyclists.  The 3,280-mile bike ride began in Santa Barbara, California on September 14 and is scheduled to end in Charleston, South Carolina on October 24. He rides in memory of the patients of ...
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• American Cancer Society Honors Outstanding Innovative Achievements In Palliative Care

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  James A. Block, M.D., president of J.A. Block Health Associates, will receive the inaugural 2009 American Cancer Society Pathfinder in Palliative Care Award, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated innovation and ingenuity in their contributions to the advancement of the field of palliative care.
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