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March has roared in like a lion with respect to euthanasia. In Iowa, state Sen. Nick Sturgeon advanced a bill that would amend the state's living-will law to permit physician-assisted suicide. In California, a petition drive is in full swing to get an initiative legalizing physician-assisted euthanasia on the November ballot

In Minnesota, as in many other states, the question of what to do when religion and medicine are in conflict is difficult to resolve. The Christian Science couple who provide spiritual healing for their sick baby, the Jehovah's Witness who opposes the use of blood or blood products for her daughter, the Hmong dad who believes that the shaman _ not the surgeon _ is his son's best hope for a cure are all acting from morally sound motives. They want to do what their consciences, cultures and hearts tell them is best for their children

If there is anything Americans agree on it is that their health-care system is a mess. Yet, people ranging from White House officials to health economists to inside-the-Beltway pundits are just as certain that a cure is years away. They are wrong. Minnesota has come up with a practical plan to fix its health-care system

These are important questions that justify taking a closer look at HealthRight. About the time Gov. Arne Carlson took his pen in hand, plastered a gloating smile on his kisser and signed the bill into law, I began to read the actual bill. To give you some sense of the size of this behemoth, I finished reading it four hours after the last politician stopped talking. HealthRight consists of 182 pages of tiny, single-spaced print. I have read computer software manuals that were easier to understand

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Did former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas lie when he told reporters that he had been completely cured of cancer by a bone-marrow transplant? Did his doctors intentionally deceive the American people about the health of a man aspiring to hold the nation's most powerful office? Perhaps

Did former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas lie when he told reporters that he had been completely cured of cancer by a bone-marrow transplant? Did his doctors intentionally deceive the American people about the health of a man aspiring to hold the nation's most powerful office? Perhaps

The New York driver said that her accelerator had inexplicably become stuck. The Chicago driver said he thought he had hit his brakes but the car accelerated and would not stop. Officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say that in these kinds of accidents the cause of rapid acceleration is almost always driver error

Geoffrey Fieger, [Jack Kevorkian]'s lawyer, originally denied that Kevorkian took any active role in causing [Susan Williams]' death earlier this month. But he subsequently changed his tune. He now says it was Dr. Jack who purchased a canister of carbon monoxide gas, brought it to Susan Williams' home and counseled her about how to gas herself to death

Last year, the NIH scientists were going to publish some of their initial discoveries in the prestigious journal Science. Just before they did, the attorneys responsible for patents at the NIH got wind of their publication plans. The lawyers realized that if the newly discovered genetic sequences appeared in print without a patent having been filed, then anyone could use them without having to pay fees or royalties. The lawyers gagged. The NIH attorneys put the kibosh on publication until they could file patent applications on the genetic sequences