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By Laurie Tarkin, Jenny Warburg for The New York Times

Of the estimated 730,000 Americans who have strokes each year, nearly 160,000 die and another 400,000 suffer varying degrees of disability. Yet, when stroke patients arrive at emergency rooms, medical experts say, they are not usually treated with the urgency required.

The less-than-rapid response, in some cases, can make the difference between full recovery and permanent debilitating disease or death.

ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE — Vol. 161 No. 3, February 12, 2001

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Kristen M. Coppola, PhD; Peter H. Ditto, PhD; Joseph H. Danks, PhD; William D. Smucker, MD

NEW YORK TIMES, Health Section (Tues, February 13, 2001)

By Eric Nagourney

Despite recent growth of the hospice field, intended to help the terminally ill die as peacefully as possible, most Americans still die in hospitals. Other studies had found that doctors often failed to tell patients’ families about their options; now, a new report suggests that nurses, too, may play a role.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Nov. 16, 2000, Vol;284:2460-2468

This article received considerable attention in the press when it was released.

Author Information Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD; Diane L. Fairclough, DPH; Linda L. Emanuel, MD, PhD

Context Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are highly controversial issues. While there are studies of seriously ill patients’ interest in euthanasia and PAS, there are no data on the attitudes and desires of terminally ill patients regarding these issues.

Sen. Gordon Smith says the president is considering an order to overturn how a U.S. drug law can be used

In an editorial 19 September, 2000 the New York Times called for President Clinton’s veto should the Senate pass the so-called “Pain Relief Promotion Act.”

The following article was carried in Congress Daily A.M. explains the building opposition to the Pain Relief Promotion Act and reported on the internet by John Hoffsess in “Nothing But the News”.

A study reported in the September 11th issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine and carried by Reuters Health News service reports that “Most terminally ill cancer patients favor right to die.”

A psychiatrist accused of killing five elderly patients by prescribing fatal doses of morphine was convicted Monday of manslaughter and negligent homicide.

In a major coup for proponents of the Maine Death with Dignity Act, the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday voiced her support for the proposed law.

Interview with former professor of pharmacology and hospital doctor, dr. Jan Glerum

Exit Australia head Dr Philip Nitschke is supporting euthanasia advocate Lesley Martin at her next court appearance on an attempted murder charge.