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It has been widely reported that Elvis Presley died in 1977 from cardiac arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat, possibly brought on by drug dependency, obesity and a weak heart. But the music legend's longtime friend and physician, Dr. George “Nick” Nichopoulos, has put pen to paper for the first time and revealed his belief that it was chronic constipation that actually killed the King of Rock and Roll.

The debacle of deinstitutionalization continues to worsen with each passing year. In 1955, there were 559,000 individuals in America's state mental hospitals. By 2005, there were only 47,000 state hospital beds left in the country, a number that continues to fall. Numerous studies have documented the tragic effects of releasing hundreds of thousands of seriously mentally ill individuals from state hospitals while failing to ensure that they receive treatment. The latest, carried out by Jason Matejkowski and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, found that individuals with serious mental illnesses are responsible for 10% of all homicides in Indiana. That...

A Vietnamese woman who travelled to Taiwan to find the father she had never met, ended up working for him without knowing it. Tran Thi Kham, 40, did not discover the truth until after leaving her employer. Their reunion only came about because she mistakenly left some keepsakes at his home, which he had given to her mother more than 40 years before. Tsai Han-chao, 77, said he could not help crying when he found out he had a daughter he never knew about. "Life's ups and downs are just like television drama. How could I have ever dreamed that...

HOUSTON -- The Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association is expected to cancel an appearance by Roger Clemens, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle. The THSBCA will hold an executive meeting on Tuesday, and though no decision was made on Monday, the organization had removed Clemens from its Web site. "Nothing is final, but we will be meeting in regards to the issue," THSBCA president Jim Long told the Chronicle. "We would like to talk with Roger, and then decide on a course of action from there." The report says Clemens was scheduled to be the keynote speaker...