Police face long-term illness linked to early meth lab exposure
Portland officers who helped raid 1980s meth labs report illnesses including non Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple cancers. Fire and police veterans describe lack of protection before gear evolved in the mid 1980s. Officials note no definitive science but pension boards link exposure to health problems.
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Portland
Ore
Pome Ine
Metha
Brad Sant
International Association of Firefighters
Ww Dc
Brent Burton
Egon Health Sciences University
Police Pension Board
Ed Freeman
Ead
Death row inmate organ donation raises ethics for doctors
In Alabama a last minute stay halted an execution to allow David Nelson to donate a kidney to his brother Louis awaiting dialysis. Vanderbilt doctors weigh consent and viability with ethicists amid a national rarity and strong opposition on moral grounds. Louis Nelson's chronic kidney failure frames a complex medical and legal debate, while Alabama's high court delays execution to test transplant viability.
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Birmingham
Ala
J. Harold Helderman
Vanderbilt Transplant Center
Nashville
Tenn
Alabama
David Larry Nelson
Nelson
Helderman
Delaware
Viktors
Veterans Hospital
Louis
Alvin C. York VA
Murfreesboro
Louis Nelson
Vanderbilt
Richard Zaner
David Nelson
Wilson Thompson
Alabama Supreme Court
Holman Prison
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Darry Hough
Death Row
Drexel Heritage
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Bheswpeaheillrirs
Wadley Ave
Midland
Mellie van Horn
N. Sam Houston
Odessa
Todd Hall