tagged w/ Michael Jackson Autopsy Results
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More details emerging from the official Michael Jackson autopsy report show the pop icon was reportedly "fairly healthy" for a 50-year-old man. Jackson's death was ruled a homicide from an overdose of the anesthetic Propofol and sedative Lorazepam.More details emerging from the official Michael Jackson autopsy report show the pop... more
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The death of Michael Jackson has been ruled a homicide by drug overdose, according to a statement released by the Los Angeles Coroner's office on Friday.The death of Michael Jackson has been ruled a homicide by drug overdose, according to... more
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Medical experts are hoping the investigation into the sudden death of pop superstar Michael Jackson will renew attention on prescription drug abuse, a scourge that has cut short the lives of celebrities and opened up a new front on the war on drugs.
“There isn’t as much awareness as there needs to be,” said Lois F. Parker, a senior attending pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital. “I think it’s much more widespread than we realize.”Medical experts are hoping the investigation into the sudden death of pop superstar... more
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The Sun documents the findings of (first?) autopsy on Michael Jackson in today's paper. Included are the facts that he only weighed 8st, was almost bald, wore a wig and had no food just pills in his stomach. The popstar's body had been riddled with scars and puncture marks.The Sun documents the findings of (first?) autopsy on Michael Jackson in today's... more
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Relatives of Michael Jackson will seek a second autopsy on the star because they still have unanswered questions about his death, family friends say.
Veteran politician Rev Jesse Jackson, who has been counselling the family, said they were upset the official cause of death might not be known for weeks.
He said the family wanted answers from the star's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, who was with him when he died.
Coroners ruled out foul play after an initial autopsy on the 50-year-old.
But they gave no cause of death, saying the results of toxicology tests could take weeks to come back.
Jackson's family have also spoken of their grief at his death.
In a statement issued by his father Joseph Jackson, the star's relatives called it "one of the darkest moments of our lives".
"It leaves us, his family, speechless and devastated to a point where communication with the outside world seems almost impossible at times," the statement said.
The family also thanked fans for their messages of support.
The Reverend Al Sharpton, a family friend, said that Jackson's relatives were considering the idea of simultaneous global celebrations to commemorate his life.
This was because they wanted people to focus on the entertainer's music rather than his problems, Rev Sharpton said.
'Questions of substance'
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said investigators had briefly spoken to Jackson's personal doctor, but they wanted to speak to him again.
A lawyer for Dr Murray said the physician had agreed to answer questions from detectives.
"Contrary to what has been out there, Dr Murray has been co-operating with authorities from the outset and will continue to do so," Bill Stradley told Reuters news agency.
Jesse Jackson said the family had a flurry of questions of their own for the doctor.
"When did the doctor come? What did he do? Did they inject him, if so with what," he said.
The rights leader claimed Dr Murray had gone missing in the hours immediately following the singer's death, which raised "questions of substance that will not go away until they are answered".
"He owes it to the family and to the public to say: 'These were the last hours of Michael's life and here's what happened.'"
Jackson, who had a history of health problems, collapsed at his Los Angeles home at about midday on Thursday.
A recording of the telephone call made to emergency services from his home was released on Friday.
The caller is heard to say Jackson is unconscious and has stopped breathing, and that a doctor is trying to revive him.
The singer was pronounced dead at the UCLA medical centre two hours after the call was made.Relatives of Michael Jackson will seek a second autopsy on the star because they still... more
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Los Angeles County coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey says determining the cause of Michael Jackson’s death will require further tests that will take four to six weeks.
Harvey says there were no signs of foul play or trauma to the body. He also says Jackson was taking some unspecified prescription medications.
The spokesman says Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter is with Jackson’s family.
Police investigating Jackson’s death Friday were seeking to interview one of the pop king’s doctors and seized a car that they said may contain drugs or other evidence.
As the three-hour autopsy began Friday morning, police towed a BMW from Jackson’s rented home “because it may contain medications or other evidence that may assist the coroner in determining the cause of death,” police spokeswoman Karen Rayner said.
She said the car belongs to one of Jackson’s doctors whom police wanted to interview. Rayner stressed the doctor was not under criminal investigation.
The Los Angeles Times has identified the physician as Dr. Conrad Murray, 51, a Las Vegas cardiologist, and reports that Murray was administering CPR to Jackson when paramedics arrived.
A woman who answered the phone Friday at Murray's clinic in Houston confirmed to The Associated Press that Murray was Jackson's cardiologist. The woman, who refused to give her name, would not confirm the Los Angeles Times report that Murray performed CPR on Jackson.
The Los Angeles Times cites other published reports saying Jackson had received a shot of Demerol before going into cardiac arrest.
The Texas State Board of Medical Examiners Web site shows no complaints filed against Murray in the four years he's been a licensed cardiologist in Texas.
In a 911 call released by fire officials, a caller reports Jackson was on a bed and not breathing or responding to CPR. The unidentified caller said Jackson only was with his personal doctor at the time. The pop star died later Thursday afternoon at UCLA Medical Center.
As stores reported they were inundated with orders for Jackson’s music, a chorus of grief for the megastar spread around the world, from statesmen to icons of music to legions of heartbroken fans.
“I can’t stop crying. This is too sudden and shocking,” said Diana Ross, who helped launch Jackson’s career. “I am unable to imagine this. My heart is hurting.”
Lisa Marie Presley, briefly married to the pop icon in the mid-1990s, said he had confided to her 14 years ago that he worried about facing the same tragic fate as her father, Elvis Presley, who died of a drug overdose at age 42.
“The world is in shock but somehow he knew exactly how his fate would be played out some day more than anyone else knew, and he was right,” she wrote in a long, emotional statement on her MySpace page online.
The White House also weighed in for the first time, with a spokesman saying President Barack Obama saw Jackson as a spectacular performer and music icon whose life nonetheless had sad and tragic aspects. The House of Representatives observed a moment of silence...Los Angeles County coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey says determining the cause... more
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This is a crazy story, the myspace part anyway.
The daughter of the late Elvis Presley says her former husband said he was afraid he was going to end up like her father.
If you believe Lisa Marie Presley, Michael Jackson foresaw his own demise years ago.
"He knew," wrote Presley, Jackson's wife from 1994 to 1996, in a revealing post on her MySpace blog Friday morning.
The daughter of the late Elvis Presley, she has become a tragic link between two great music legends, whose untimely deaths shocked the world as much as their lives had captivated it.
Jackson saw the parallel, Presley wrote, and spoke about it during a conversation the two once had about her father.
"At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, 'I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did,' " Presley, 41, recalled in her MySpace post.
When she tried to dissuade Jackson from his grim prediction, she wrote, he just shrugged. "He knew what he knew and that was kind of that."
Presley wrote fondly of Jackson, saying their marriage was not a "sham," as the media had labeled it, but rather "an unusual relationship . . . where two unusual people who did not live or know a 'normal life' found a connection."
Presley could not be reached, but her publicist, Cindy Guagenti, said Presley had done all her blogging on her MySpace page and that "we have had very positive reaction to the blog."
Guagenti said she did not know if Presley's post had attracted any reaction from Jackson's family.
But the reaction from fans was clear: By the end of the day, the post had generated nearly 1,000 comments, many of them sympathetic.
Activity on Jackson's MySpace page, now a kind of musical memorial, was even more intense. The singer's friend count was increasing by nearly 100 every minute and was on track to be the largest one-day increase in site history, according to the company.
With a huge number of Jackson songs available through the page, MySpace said nearly 100,000 songs were being played every 10 minutes.This is a crazy story, the myspace part anyway.
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