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Right to Die
9News questioned the decisions of a small town sheriff who refused to help a family remove their 91-year-old father after he had locked himself into his home. The man was suffering from potential dementia, dehydration, and malnourishment. The family thought the man would die if he did not recieve medical attention and convinced a judge he should issue an order requiring he be hospitalized. The sheriff argued the man had the "right to die" if he wanted to and upheld the court order.
Tags: Right to Die
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Rohingya: A Forgotten People
This investigation reveals abuse committed by the Thai Military against Rohingya minorities fleeing from Burma. The Thai Military would intercept Rohingya boats with refugees aboard and tow them out to the middle of the sea and leave them without adequate supplies. Being without food and water many of the Rohingya refugees died, but the numbers are unclear as to how many people actually died.
Tags: Thailand; Myanmar; ocean; islands; human rights; Prime Minister; Abhisit Vejjajiva; boatpeople; Muslim; safety; persecution
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Death Wish
"Two members of hte national 'right to die' group Final Exit Network secretly assisted a seriously mentally ill Phoenix woman to commit suicide by inhaling helium. The police learned about the assisted suicide only because of blunders by the pair. murder investigation is still ongoing."
Tags: balloons; gas; Jana Van Voorhis; Wye Hale-Rowe; Frank Langsner; Jack Kevorkian; Hemlock Society; Derek Humphrey
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Overcoming Injustice: Safeguarding the right to vote
The two-day series looked at black participation at the polls 40 years after the Voting Rights Act safeguarded their right to vote. In a county-by-county analysis of black voter turnout in the 2004 election, it found that blacks still participate at a much lower level than the voting population in general. Officials and advocates were divided on whether this difference in black participation reflects a squandering of the legacy their parents and grandparents died to create, or whether obstacles to voting remain for black voters.
Tags: voting; census; Florida; FOIA; voting age; race; black voters; voter turnout
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Enemy of the state
The Pioneer Press investigates the death of Father John Kaiser, a Minnesotan missionary in Kenya, who died mysteriously of a shotgun blast to the head alongside a road north of Nairobi in August 2000. The series reveals that Kaiser had undertaken a courageous campaign against President Daniel Moi. The stories refute the Kenyan authorities' conclusion that the priest committed suicide. "In fact, [we] were told by a member of the Kenyan government how he was killed by police officers," Laszewski reports.
Tags: religion; Catholicism; social injustice; government wrongdoing; corruption; United Nations; refugee camps; human rights
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The Cure: With Big Drugs Dying, Merck Didn't Merge - It Found New Ones
The Wall Street Journal analyses the survival of Merck & Co. at the time when it is gradually losing its exclusive rights to several of its best-selling drugs. The story finds that the key for Merck's success is "searching for blockbuster drugs," instead of joining "the merger rush sweeping the pharmaceuticals industry." The reporter looks at the Merck's innovative research for painkilling drugs, and describes the effectiveness and the flaws of some of the company's new pills.
Tags: drugs; business; Food and Drug Administration (FDA); health; side effects; ulcer; headache; Monsanto; mergers and acquisitions
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Path to cop killer littered with errors
The Star-Ledger reports that "In the nine days between (policewoman) Joyce Carnegie's murder and the arrest of (Condell) Woodson on April 17, an innocent man was arrested and his alibi checked halfheartedly. Two other suspects were arrested, one of whom died mysteriously after being taken into custody.... Federal investigators are reviewing whether civil rights were violated in two of the arrests. Wrongful-arrest and wrongful death lawsuits are expected. .... 'A fiasco' is the way County Executive James W. Treffinger described the handling of the case...."
Tags: police murder Newark Superior Court Essex County homicide Orange County
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Dying for a Cure
U.S. News and World Report reports "how cancer patients often submit to risky medical trials - and sometimes pay with their lives... Some researchers neglected to report adverse reactions to experimental drugs -- including deaths. Others coerced cancer-ridden patients into waiving their legal rights. Still others placed patients into trials that were medically inappropriate, possibly reducing their chances for survival.... No government agency tracks (all) patients who enroll in medical trials."
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The health divide
In theory, all Americans have an equal right to quality health care. In reality, how you live -- and die-- may well be determined by the color of your skin, according to Newsday's eight-part series.
Tags: FOIA Medicaid Organ transplant Discrimination Centers for Disease Control
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Right to Freedom, Risk of Death
Sylvia Bruns died in a group home for the developmentally disabled. The reporters found that Brun's death was just one of the hidden tragedies associated with a state policy that has transferred thousands of severely disabled Californians into less expensive community homes.
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