Terri Schiavo case is really about disability rights
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Oral argument on the Terri Schiavo case is scheduled for today in the Florida Supreme Court. Seventeen national disability organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief, the third disability brief in the case.
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A woman who has been paralysed for almost 20 years has started to walk again after scientists injected stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood into her spine.
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Angel Raich voted for California&#39;s Proposition 215 in 1996 because she thought medical marijuana might help others. Then came the night, a year later, when Raich steered her wheelchair into the bedroom of
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(Editor&#39;s note: What follows is a statement released on Sept. 23, 2004, by the family of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, reacting to a Florida Supreme Court ruling striking down
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The death of Christopher Reeve illustrated something that those who live with paralysis know all too well: for quadriplegics, infection is Public Enemy No. 1.
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The family of a state prison inmate from Richmond who died after dental surgery filed a federal civil rights suit against the Department of Corrections last week, claiming the state routinely deprives prisoners of adequate medical care.
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The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
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A South Carolina case has focused attention not just on the danger of an unorthodox therapy but also on the conduct of the state medical board.
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A disability or injury doesnât have to bring a traveler to a halt.
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The way the Prodisc, an artificial spinal disk, was tested and approved provides a stark example of conflicts of interest among clinical researchers.
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Advocates for the mental ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.
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Six days after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed at the request of her husband, a hospital began again pumping fluids into the brain-damaged woman on orders from Gov. Jeb Bush.
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NEEDHAM -- Anderson Wise is paralyzed below the waist because of spina bifida, but that does not mean that his parents, Sally and Dale, expected less of him.
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Four years ago, 28-year-old multiple sclerosis patient Karen Ayres was wheelchair-bound and paralyzed. "I was trapped in a body that wouldn't do anything," she says. Now, following an experimental drug treatment, she has regained mobility and is studying for a doctoral degree.
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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Thursday he doesn't know enough about efforts by President Bush and Congress to keep Terri Schiavo alive to have an opinion on the right-to-die case that stirred national debate.
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The Supreme Court of the US state of Florida has struck down a controversial law that forced the husband of a severely brain-damaged woman to keep her alive by artificial means.
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LEE COUNTYâ The death of Christopher Reeve brings more attention to a controversial issue during this presidential election - embryonic stem cell research.