At Maryland hospital, memorial for body donors
Los Angeles Times Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:52 PM PDT
A service honors those who gave their remains to science â€" and others whose bodies were left at the hospital by circumstance. Every so often, a tear splashed from Sharmalita Christians' face onto the photo she held of a man with an inviting grin. |
ACC Refuses to Revisit Surgery Decisions
Scoop.co.nz Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:37 PM PDT
In May ACC released a report on its internal review into the way it makes decisions on requests to fund surgery. This came about as a result of a sustained public outcry during 2010, which included the Orthopaedic Surgeon̢۪s national body, claimants and politicians. |
Lung cancer victim's deathbed image sends potent message
Los Angeles Times Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:26 PM PDT
The photo of Barb Tarbox didn't make the cut for the FDA's new cigarette warning labels, but she wanted people to see the truth. For American smokers, her portrait is a glimpse of a future frightening to ponder, and for U.S. health officials, perhaps too powerful to foist on the public: an unsparing photograph of a person scarcely recognizable as a woman, her body wasted by cancer, her hair gone ... |
Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy Will Play Berkeley Rep Encore Run
Playbill Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:17 PM PDT
Let Me Down Easy, Anna Deavere Smith's solo play about the U.S. healthcare system and the resilience of the human body, which is currently playing an extended run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, will return for an encore engagement in August. |
Five shot on Market Street on Pink Saturday
The San Francisco Examiner Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:24 PM PDT
Five people were injured in a shooting near Seventh and Market streets on Saturday night, two of them seriously, police are reporting. Two victims in the 6:15 p.m. shooting on the 1000 block of Market Street, only blocks from the Pink Saturday festivities at Civic Center that are part of Pride weekend, were shot in the body and are being treated for life-threatening injuries, Lt. Troy ... |
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