Medical Examiner Rules Ledgerâs Death Accidental
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Heath Ledger died accidentally from the abuse of  prescription medications â specifically, six kinds of painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs.
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Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday. The cause of death was "acute intoxication by the combined effects of o...
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NEW YORK  -Australian actor Heath Ledger's death was an accident caused by the abuse of prescription drugs, six of which were found in his body, the New York City medical examiner's office said on Wednesday.
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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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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--BILOXI -- An autopsy of remains found floating near the shoreline of the Mississippi Sound in Biloxi showed the cause of death was drowning.
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A doctor says the death of baby, allegedly poisoned by salt, could have been an accident.
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US rapper Pimp C, who was found dead in December, was killed by an accidental overdose, coroners rule.
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Hollywood star Heath Ledger, found dead in his New York apartment two weeks ago, died of accidental intoxication brought on by his abuse of a cocktail of prescription drugs, officials said Wednesday.
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The city's medical examiner concluded that the misuse of pills, not the dust of ground zero, caused the lung disease that killed a man who became a nationally known example of post-Sept. 11 illness, the examiner's spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
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A doctor who admitted hastening the deaths of two dying babies is cleared of misconduct.
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Tests on a $20 bill found at the Lower Manhattan apartment where actor Heath Ledger died yielded no drug residue, police said. The bill was tested to see whether it had been used to snort illegal drugs because of the way it was folded, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
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By Deb Gruver, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 6--A man accused of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated battery in a June accident that killed a Wichita woman and injured her mother waived his rights Tuesday to a preliminary hearing.
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Fresh from ruling that World Trade Center dust did not kill a police detective, a medical examiner offered the man's relatives other reasons Friday for his death, an explanation the family found "not acceptable," their lawyer said.
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An airline that forced an elderly woman to check her bag with her medical devices bears responsibility for her subsequent death after losing the bag, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - A medical examiner studying a body in a morgue was startled when the man took a shallow breath.  Emergency medical technicians had declared 29-year-old Larry D. Green dead almost two hours earlier, after he was hit by a car.  Medical examiner J.B.
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Several people close to Anna Nicole Smith were quick to speculate after her death that drugs were to blame. The medical examiner who performed an autopsy on her body, though, said it could take weeks to determine a cause of death.
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A New York police detective died of lung disease caused by injecting ground-up pills not exposure to toxic air from working in the rubble of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks, the city's medical examiner said on Thursday.