Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
By Irene Gimeno As Baby RB’s father agrees to switch off his one-year-old son’s life support, the debate about euthanasia in the United Kingdom re-opens. Mr AB has withdrawn from the legal battle he started after the doctors made a counter-request to disconnect the baby from external aid, an option supported by the mother. After [...]
Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
By Irene Gimeno Barack Obama’s healthcare legislation passed by the House of Representatives on November 7 aims to provide with medical insurance coverage for the 96% of the American population. The project was supported in Washington by 219 Democrats -39 opposed it- and only one Republican vote, that of Anh Cao, the Representative of Louisiana. Some [...]
Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
by Irene Gimeno Twenty-seven-year-old Corporal Thomas ‘Tam’ Mason, as his comrades knew him, natural of Rosyth, Fife, died on Sunday 25th of October at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham. The Scottish soldier became the 223rd casualty after medical efforts were not able to save his life from blast injuries caused by [...]
