Last year doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California diagnosed 29-year-old Anahita Meshkin as brain-dead and refused to continue treating her for ethical reasons. However, her father's fight to keep his daughter alive led to two Uc San Francisco School of Medicine neurologists discovering that Anahita was not actually brain-dead, San Jose Mercury News reports. In lieu of operating on her infected, fractured hip because they felt treating a brain dead patient was unethical, doctors reportedly told Anahita's father, Mohammed Meshkin, that they wanted to take his daughter - who had been in a coma since 2007 following...
- 5/19/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
An attorney for the family of a California teenager who was declared brain-dead says doctors have found signs of brain functions. Now, the lawyer is seeking an unprecedented court order declaring her alive. Attorney Chris Dolan said Thursday that doctors at the nonprofit International Brain Research Foundation made the findings after running a series of tests on the 13-year-old Jahi McMath at Rutgers University last week. The discovery came months after three doctors, including one appointed by a judge, declared McMath brain-dead, and Alameda County issued a death certificate after her Dec. 9 sleep apnea surgery went awry. Since then, Jahi's...
- 10/5/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
An attorney for the family of a California teenager who was declared brain-dead says doctors have found signs of brain functions. Now, the lawyer is seeking an unprecedented court order declaring her alive. Attorney Chris Dolan said Thursday that doctors at the nonprofit International Brain Research Foundation made the findings after running a series of tests on the 13-year-old Jahi McMath at Rutgers University last week. The discovery came months after three doctors, including one appointed by a judge, declared McMath brain-dead, and Alameda County issued a death certificate after her Dec. 9 sleep apnea surgery went awry. Since then, Jahi's...
- 10/5/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
The foundation started by the family of Terri Schiavo has taken the side of Jahi McMath’s family as they continue to battle the Children’s Hospital in Oakland, Calif., which claims that the 13-year-old girl is medically dead.
Terri Schiavo's Family Backs Jahi McMath's Kin
The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, launched after the Florida woman’s prolongued life support sparked national interest when her family fought her husband’s insistence to remove her feeding tube, believes the McMath family should be allowed to seek medical attention for Jahi elsewhere. Furthermore, they’ve suggested that the Oakland hospital’s insistence that McMath is brain dead is due to its “vested financial interest.”
“Under the direction of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, numerous organizations and individuals have been working on behalf of Jahi McMath and her family in relative silence for the sake of the sensitivity of her case,...
Terri Schiavo's Family Backs Jahi McMath's Kin
The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, launched after the Florida woman’s prolongued life support sparked national interest when her family fought her husband’s insistence to remove her feeding tube, believes the McMath family should be allowed to seek medical attention for Jahi elsewhere. Furthermore, they’ve suggested that the Oakland hospital’s insistence that McMath is brain dead is due to its “vested financial interest.”
“Under the direction of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, numerous organizations and individuals have been working on behalf of Jahi McMath and her family in relative silence for the sake of the sensitivity of her case,...
- 1/2/2014
- Uinterview
Lucy Lawless, 57, filed suit this week in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claiming that the Lpga’s rules that state a woman must be “female at birth” are outdated and discriminatory, and violates her civil rights. The filing was first made public on Wednesday. The suit was filed on Lawless’ behalf by her attorney, Chris Dolan. Lawless said she was denied membership in the Lpga even though she is a post-operative transsexual and is recognized as a woman by her home state of California.
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- 10/15/2010
- by Doug Mead
- Green Celebrity
After her marriage Manisha Koirala will now spend more time in her home-town Kathmandu than in Mumbai. One of Bollywood's most beautiful and footloose divas, Manisha Koirala is all set to get married finally. Just back in Mumbai after an extensive shoot in Kerala for Malayalam film Manisha can barely contain her excitement. She says, "Yes, I'm getting married to Samrat. He's from Nepal, like me. But please, it is not an arranged marriage. Yes, our families know one another for some years now. So there was a comfort level between me and Samrat for a very long time. Gradually the bonding grew from friendship to love. And when Samrat asked me to marry him I agreed." Manisha returned to Mumbai from Kerala on Wednesday morning to the news of her marriage all over the place. She laughs, "I was totally cut off in Kerala shooting for Shayam Prasad's Malayalam film.
- 4/9/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
After her marriage Manisha Koirala will now spend more time in her home-town Kathmandu than in Mumbai. One of Bollywood's most beautiful and footloose divas, Manisha Koirala is all set to get married finally. Just back in Mumbai after an extensive shoot in Kerala for Malayalam film Manisha can barely contain her excitement. She says, "Yes, I'm getting married to Samrat. He's from Nepal, like me. But please, it is not an arranged marriage. Yes, our families know one another for some years now. So there was a comfort level between me and Samrat for a very long time. Gradually the bonding grew from friendship to love. And when Samrat asked me to marry him I agreed." Manisha returned to Mumbai from Kerala on Wednesday morning to the news of her marriage all over the place. She laughs, "I was totally cut off in Kerala shooting for Shayam Prasad's Malayalam film.
- 4/9/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
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