Health, community leaders seek more diabetes funds

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Health and community leaders urged Congress to allocate more funds to combat diabetes mellitus in minority communities, where it has reached epidemic proportions. Testimony before the House Select Committee on Aging indicated that diabetes is the third leading cause of death among African-Americans and that Asian-Americans, Native Americans and Hispanics are much more likely than caucasians to develop the disease.

Legislative bodies, Health aspects, Investigations, Demographic aspects, Diabetes, Diabetes mellitus, Minorities, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging

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Humphry asks physicians' help in suicide rights battle

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Derek Humphrey, author 'Final Exit,' a best-selling suicide manual, asserted that physicians should assist the suicides of terminally ill patients who want to die. At the 1992 American Assn of Suicidology conference, Humphry claimed that organized medicine, particularly the American Medical Assn, is insensitive to the pain and suffering of the terminally ill. Attendees' reactions to Humphrey's speech were mixed.

Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Assisted suicide, Ethical aspects, Speeches, lectures and essays, Humphry, Derek

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