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Health care's missing care

Caregiving is a lost art, says Arthur Kleinman –let's restore humanities to the same level as diagnosis and treatment 4:47 AM EDT

Before her death, Alexandra Smith was due to be evicted from her austere lodgings at Strachan House in downtown Toronto, where the developmentally disabled and schizophrenic 38-year-old had punched holes in the walls, broken windows and smeared feces around the room. Her mother and sister, who had to clean up, wonder why no 24-hour care facility was available to her.

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A room with no view

Alexandra set fires and slammed a car door on someone's head. She also loved animals and searched in vain for peace from the voices that tormented her. When her body was found last week, her family grieved, but a burden also lifted Jul 11, 2009 4:48AM EDT

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‘They keep feeding him pills like candy'

Out next week, Ian Halperin's new book, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, paints a picture of the King of Pop as a lonely man ‘surrounded by enablers' Jul 11, 2009 3:46PM EDT

End tyranny, corruption, Obama tells Africa

U.S. president praises, scolds continent; calls on Africans to seize ‘new moment of great promise' 5:10 PM EDT

Harper, Pope discuss economy, values

PM caps four days of high-level meetings with visit to religious leader 4:25 PM EDT

Arturo ‘Thunder' Gatti found dead in Brazil

Body of former junior welterweight champ from Montreal discovered Saturday morning in posh seaside resort 6:35 PM EDT

Uighurs dispute China's breakdown of riot dead

China releases breakdown of the death toll from communal rioting, saying most of the 184 killed were from the Han Chinese majority 6:01 PM EDT

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