Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dirty little secret about euthanasia is that it's common in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes even in the 49 states where it's illegal. It just isn't talked about. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this year found that 1 in 21 doctors surveyed had administered a lethal injection to end suffering. A doctor in the anonymous survey reported having done it 150 times...
...editor-in-chief of Time Inc., was our choice to write the introductory essay, as it occurred to us that since this was an issue about bosses, we might as well ask our own boss to contribute (clever, huh?). Pearlstine is a former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and has been covering business for more than three decades...
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have found a strong correlation between high waist-to-hip ratios in middle-aged women and risk for heart disease, according to a new study in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA...
There is a good argument to be made that Pinochet's extradition has been less than fair, and in a recent Wall Street Journal article, former British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind claims exactly that. Pinochet's arrest would give international weight to the rulings of a single Spanish judge; his arrest, if demanded by unitary actors as it is now, would be clearly biased and unfair: "The proper courts of law for international criminals," Rifkind claims, "are international courts...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine; Journal of the American Medical Association; Annals of Internal Medicine; New England Journal of Medicine