Word: health
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Foreman Thomas says the jurors agreed early that the fetus was alive when it was born. They were using a definition of death jointly formulated by the judge, prosecutors and defenders, along the lines of one used by the World Health Organization: "The permanent disappearance of all vital signs." By this definition, the fetus had been alive, since the nurses testified that it had gasped for breath and had a heartbeat. But the jury split widely on the question of Waddill's culpability, with two strongly for acquittal, two strongly for conviction, and the rest unsure. Then...
...courtroom adversaries, mentioned that a short while earlier he had been telephoned by an Anaheim police officer who asked for a definition of death in connection with another case. Chatterton casually added that he had just found out that doctors generally use a definition found in the state health and safety code...
...Section 7180 of the health and safety code," Chatterton nonchalantly repeated. Until then, neither judge nor defense attorneys were aware that California law contained a legal definition of death...
...group of physicians from Cuba toured the School of Public Health last month for the first time in 18 years, and Saudi Arabian medical students recently observed clinical training in the Harvard teaching hospitals...
...Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has notified admissions officers at medical schools not to process the scores of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) because this year's mean score on the test is "significantly lower" than last year's, Martha P.Leape, health careers coordinator and advisor for the Office Of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said yesterday...