Death in Illinois ER ruled homicide
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A coroner's jury has declared the death of a heart attack victim who spent almost two hours in a hospital waiting room to be a homicide.
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Chicago - The family and friends of a pregnant woman murdered for her unborn baby prepared to bury the 23-year-old on Tuesday, a day after her infant was released from hospital.
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Anna Nicole Smith does not appear to be a victim of foul play, according to preliminary results of an autopsy performed Friday. Prescription drugs found in her hotel room were not detected in her stomach, medical examiner Joshua Perper said. He added his office is waiting for results of toxicological and other tests before determining how Smith died.
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In the months since a 14-year-old boy was found shot to death with a state senator's handgun at his side, questions have swirled about whether his death was a suicide, homicide or some sort of terrible accident.
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The coroner's reports on the deaths of nine patients trapped in a sweltering hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina should be made public, a judge ruled Friday.
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Rep. Paul E. Gillmor (R-Ohio) died of blunt head and neck trauma, injuries consistent with a fall down stairs, the Virginia medical examiner's office concluded in ruling his death an accident.
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The High Court has ruled a woman in a persistent vegetative state given an experimental treatment against her family's wishes can be allowed to die.
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A New Orleans grand jury will decide if a doctor and two nurses intentionally killed patients with injections before the hospital was evacuated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said Tuesday.
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Over two years ago, the case of a man who died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after donating a portion of his liver to his brother gained a lot of media attention. According to a report published this month, fulminant gas gangrene of the stomach was the cause of death.
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A state trooper has been charged with homicide in the death last year of a dentist who was in the midst of divorcing the lawman's live-in girlfriend.
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NEW YORK -- The death of rapper ODB was deemed an accident by the medical examiner, who said yesterday that he died from the combined effects of cocaine and a prescription painkiller.
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Health officials in the Hudson Valley said a woman&#39;s death in November was caused by Cruetzfeldt-Jacob disease. died of the disease.
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By Jennifer Latson, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 25--NEWPORT NEWS -- Newport News Commonwealth's Attorney Howard Gwynn ruled this afternoon that a police officer who shot and killed a man in February was justified in the shooting.
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The case against a doctor and two  nurses accused of murdering four elderly patients after  Hurricane Katrina will go forward despite a coroner's ruling  that it is unclear how they died, the New Orleans District  Attorney's office said on Thursday.
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Rapper ODB, whose death in a Manhattan recording studio last month sent ripples through the hip-hop community, died from the combined effects of cocaine and a prescription painkiller, the medical examiner has ruled.
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Workers at an inner-city hospital where a woman died last month on the floor of an emergency room have received training on their responsibilities, officials said.
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Elkhart County man was one of three people in the state diagnosed with the virus this year. A person from Elkhart County has died after being diagnosed with the West Nile virus, state health officials said today.