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Saturday, 8 November 2008 at 4:16 pm Posted by smp

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General bucks culture of silence on mental health (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2008 11:08 AM CST

In this photograph provided by Maj. Gen. David Blackledge, Blackledge, right, stands in front of a helicopter in Iraq in this undated photograph. Blackledge got psychiatric counseling to deal with wartime trauma, and now is defying the military's culture of silence on the subject of mental health problems and treatment. 'It's part of our profession ... nobody wants to admit that they've got a weakness in this area,' Blackledge said of mental health problems among troops returning from America's two wars. The man at left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Blackledge Family Photo)AP - It takes a brave soldier to do what Army Maj. Gen. David Blackledge did in Iraq.

NY family opposes end to care for brain-dead boy (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2008 10:00 AM CST

AP - A Washington hospital has asked a judge for permission stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious New York parents want to keep him on life support.

Woman has twins from cancer survivor's 13-year-old sperm (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 09:39 PM CST

An invitro fertilization is performed in an undated file photo. (File/Reuters)Reuters - A Taiwan woman has given birth to healthy twins using the 13-year-old frozen sperm of a former testicular cancer patient, local media said on Saturday, setting a record for the island.

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