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Analysis: Pertussis Prompts Review Of Immunization Exemption Law

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Lawmakers are reconsidering the philosophical and religious exemption to the childhood immunization law in the face of a rise in pertussis (whooping cough) cases. They’re also set to discuss the contentious end-of-life bill next week. VPR’s Bob Kinzel talks with Peter Biello about the week in legislative news.
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Hearings Begin On Assisted Death Bill

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The Vermont Senate Health and Welfare Committee has started its week-long review of one of the most controversial and emotional issues of the session. A bill under consideration would allow physicians to prescribe drugs to help terminally ill people end their lives.
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Vermont Summer Olympians

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Only a handful of Vermonters have competed in the Summer Olympics and a few of them join us to share their memories of reaching the highest goal in athletics. Also in the program, the Vermont Supreme Court will be hearing a case that tries to determine what the death of a pet is worth.
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Memory Loss and Alzheimer’s

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We talk with two Vermonters – a medical researcher and a reporter – about the cutting edge work underway to understand and treat memory loss and Alzheimer’s Disease. We’ll also hear from farmers about the difficult loss when a farm animal dies unexpectedly.
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Community devastated by death of mother and two children

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Police are still trying to figure out why 40 year old Nicole Waring of Wolcott avoided a would-be rescuer and plunged into the Wardsboro Brook carrying her 6-year-old daughter on Saturday. Both died, and the body of 2 1/2-year-old Grace Waring was found yesterday, although police haven’t said how she got into the brook.
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Vermont soldier remembered

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Another Vermont family is grieving the loss of a loved one in the war in Iraq. 21 year old Adam Muller died Monday when the Humvee he was riding in struck a roadside bomb. Muller served as a gunner in the U.S. Army.