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...year later, her parents have filed a lawsuit against Heath's parents, various police officers and county officials, and a local physician and physician's assistant, charging trespass, false arrest and assault, among other things. The case, which will be heard in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, as early as the end of the year, has suddenly thrust Blair, a city of 7,250 that is so placid that mayoral candidates have run unopposed for the past 12 years, deep into the rancorous national debate over who has a right to influence a pregnant woman's decision...
...that point, the Smiths retreated to the nearby home of a relative and the Tulls went to get their son out of jail. But Cathy Tull didn't stop there. That evening she solicited from a local physician's assistant, James Jordan, a letter stating that "any elective abortion could potentially cause medical and emotional damage to the mother at any stage of pregnancy." Though Jordan and the doctor who co-signed the letter, K.C. Bagby, had never examined Mary, they claimed that at 23 weeks an abortion "could not only be harmful...but even in the most extreme case...
...happens, homeopathy was born out of frustration with mainstream medicine as it was practiced in the late 18th century. It was founded by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who was horrified by such standard therapies of his day as bloodletting, purging and blistering. Hahnemann eventually abandoned his medical practice and started looking for safer ways to treat patients. One of his investigations focused on quinine, then (and now) the treatment of choice for malaria. Though he was healthy, Hahnemann dosed himself with the drug and observed that he experienced the same fevers and chills that characterize the disease...
Still, opposition is mounting. More than 40 critics, including physicians, pharmacologists and other skeptics (among them a former Time senior editor), have petitioned the FDA to require that homeopathic preparations meet the same standards of safety and efficacy as other drugs. The agency, which until now has had a hands-off policy toward homeopathic cures, has sent warning letters to several firms that market remedies for serious illnesses that require a physician's supervision...
...photo of the unmarked wooden crosses in the northern tundra reminded me of my youth. In 1945, my physician father and I were taken by the Soviet NKVD (more recently the KGB) from our home in Budapest, Hungary, and, though innocent, accused of espionage. (After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the charges were dropped.) We were shipped to the labor camps (Gulag) of the dreaded Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where I spent eight years between life and death. At one point, I weighed 85 lbs., and only a miracle saved me from joining those wooden crosses. My father...