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ICU culture affects when to pull the plug

  If you land in an intensive care unit sick enough for doctors to consider withdrawing life support, be warned. Whether and when to pull the plug may depend in large part on the practices and culture of the ICU itself -- perhaps more than your wishes, a new study finds. Full story

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Image: Children wait for their parents to arrive at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City.
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When school doesn't feel safe, facing facts helps

A devastating tornado killed children at an Oklahoma school, the latest tragedy in a place that's supposed to be safe. There are ways to cope, experts say.

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'Why would we wait?': Sisters face Jolie cancer dilemma

Angelina Jolie’s revelation this week that she’d had both breasts removed to lower her risk of cancer came as a bombshell to many -- but not to three sisters from Berkeley Heights, N.J. Cathy Balsamo, Cindy Lepore and Patti Broccoli have spent the past year grappling with the dilemma that Jolie faced: What to do when a genetic mutation means you’ve got a sky-high chance of breast or ovarian cancer?

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