Study: Women give dying family care (AP) - When someone falls terminally ill, it's usually a woman in the family who ends up providing most of the day-to-day care, including complex nursing tasks such as changing feeding tubes and giving intravenous medication, researchers say. Their study is the first in a decade of how terminally ill patients get their care. It found that the bulk of the care falls to the patient's wife, daughter or sister. And it found that nearly a quarter of those dying from diseases other than cancer fail to get all the kinds of care they need. "This may be a best-case scenario," said Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethecist at the National Institutes of Health who directed the study. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561276324-855> Group sues to protect 9 species SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An environmental group is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the California tiger salamander and nine other species in the West. The Center for Biological Diversity wants to compel the agency to list the animals under the federal Endangered Species Act. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The center claims the agency has delayed protecting the animals even though they are on the brink of extinction and the Endangered Species Act requires the agency to determine what action is warranted within two years of being petitioned. The center says the delay has reached nearly 15 years for some species. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561281172-15e>
