April 26, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for April 26, 2019
By Emily Blahnik
Reuters, In many states, pregnancy invalidates a woman’s DNR by Linda Carroll — Most states have statutes that invalidate a woman’s advance directive if she is pregnant, a U.S. study finds. And because those statutes are often not clearly outlined in the DNR form, women filling out an advance directive most likely would not know […]
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Tags: alzheimer's disease, amputee, Aneurysm, Arthur Stanley, ASU, Beyoncé, Brooke Kluck, bubble boy, CPR, CSPAN, DNR, Dr. Ammar Killu
January 30, 2012
Erin Brockovich to probe New York ‘mass hysteria’ case
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Erin Brockovich has announced she’ll be looking into an outbreak of Tourette’s-like symptoms among a group of high school students in western New York, to see if they have any environmental causes…Though the causes may be in the mind, the effects can be highly debilitating. According to the Mayo Clinic, they can include difficulty swallowing, […]
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Tags: deafness, difficulty swallowing, Erin Brockovich, New York, paralysis, Seizures, Tourette's