According to a new Yale University study, patients with DNR orders are more than twice as likely to die within 30 days of surgery as those without the orders.
U.S. Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar gestures during a news conference in Boston, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. A federal agency approved a construction and operations plan for the Cape Wind project off the Massachusetts coast, clearing the way for work to begin on America's first offshore wind farm as early as this fall, which was announced by the secretary. At left is Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Richard Sullivan, and at right is Cape Wind Associates Vice President Dennis Duffy. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)- Feds OK building plan for Mass. ocean wind farm [Boston.com]
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