Getting services right for those sick enough to die

Getting services right for those sick enough to die.

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GHETTO MIASMA - - Enough To Make You Sick ?

Beverly Blagmon lives in the School Street housing projects in southwest Yonkers, a once-vibrant manufacturing area just north of New York City long mired in unemployment and poverty. Beverly has asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis, gout and an enlarged heart, and her blood has a dangerous tendency to clot spontaneously. She is 48, and she had her first heart attack in h...

Getting sick from Sic

and colleagues have found that certain successful Streptococci actually avoid attachment to host cells. This contrasts with the modus operandi of most pathogenic bacteria. The M1 serotype of the highly heterogeneous Group A Streptococcus (GAS) pathogen is the most common GAS strain found in severe disease outbreaks. M1 GAS are unique in that they produce streptococcal inhibitor of complement (S...

A right to die.

The existence and extent of a right to die was recently examined by the Court of Appeal in the case of Re J (a minor).' The case adds to the judicial guidance available when decisions have to be taken regarding treatment of severely disabled patients or those who are facing inevitable death. Not all such cases have to be referred to the courts, only those in which the patient is a ward ofcourt....

The right to die.