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...Simpson's defense teamhas been salivating at the prospect of cross-examining a pathologist who made dozens of mistakes in the autopsies of the Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Now it looks like they'll have to wait a little longer. Prosecutors unexpectedly announced that they will not callDr. Irwin Golden, saying that Golden's superior, Coroner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, hasgiven jurors a complete analysis of the murder wounds. As defense attorney Robert Shapiro leapt to his feet to declare the defense's intentions to call Golden as a witness once the prosecution completes its case, Judge Lance Ito inquired when...
...Supreme Court refused Dr. Jack Kevorkian's last-ditch plea to avoid prosecution forassisting two suicides and three attempted suicidesby terminally-ill patients. The Justices, without comment, rejected the retired Michigan pathologist's appeal of a Michigan Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution creates no right to assisted suicide.TIME law reporter Andrea Sachssays the doctor's setback will have minimal impact on the movement, which will continue to seek to expand legal rights in this area: "Dr. Kevorkian has ricocheted in and out of court so much that people now see him as a lone ranger." Kevorkian, who has aided...
...brain, they couldn't find the lesion. As planned, they removed a section of the nerve that the cancer had invaded, knowing that it would leave her blind in her right eye but agreeing that it represented her best hope of surviving. When the tissue was examined, the pathologist could not find any cancer. Regular cat scans since then have revealed no evidence of a tumor. The medical community calls what happened "spontaneous resolution." The family call it a miracle. Even a resurrection...
...greasy logic that determines the outcome before the inquiry even begins. If miracles are defined as things that can't possibly happen, then of course the Bible's miracles must not have. "There is an anti-supernaturalist bias," says Harris. "Even if we had a sworn affidavit from a pathologist that Jesus was alive and well, a person would not believe it if he believed in principle that no dead man could ever rise. No evidence would possibly be sufficient...
Under the headline "DHEA Gets Respect," the Harvard Health Letter last July listed other preliminary trials in humans and animals. They involve the impact of DHEA on such disorders as lupus, skin cancer and diabetes. One of the experimenters, Dr. Raymond Daynes, a University of Utah pathologist, had some advice for consumers who might flock to health-food stores for DHEA supplements. "What is sold in health-food stores is garbage," he said, noting that these pills carry only enough DHEA to affect a "small mouse...