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Cerebral1: Editorial: What can we learn from those who faced hardship?
The stories of Drew Niles and Austin Hills, who have been selected as Kid Captains for the University of Iowa football team, as well as Lucas Lacina, give us some insight about how West Branch families have dealt with sickness and disability so great that a child would be changed forever. For Drew, it was being born with a ring 4 chromosome, that, to oversimplify, stunted his growth. 2: The Rap Sheet on Rick Scott
Florida voters hit the polls today in one of the most bruising, mud-drenched, and competitive gubernatorial races in recent years. In the past two months, the candidates-Democrat Alex Sink, the state's chief financial officer, and Republican Rick Scott, a health-care executive and businessman-wasted few opportunities to assail each other. 3: FDA approves Botox for migraine headaches
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials approved the wrinkle-smoothing injection Botox for migraine headaches on Friday, giving drugmaker Allergan clearance to begin marketing its drug to patients with a serious history of the condition. The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug for patients who experience 15 or more days of migraine headaches per month. 4: Celine Dion hospitalized to prevent premature birth of twins
Celine Dion, the grammy winning singer, has been hospitalized at St. Mary's Medical Center, in West Palm Beach, Florida, to prevent the premature birth of her twin boys. According to Ryan Leiber, Dion Dion, 42, has been through seven in-vitro fertilizations, plus a miscarriage she endured prior to the twins. 5: €2m court settlement over incident at birth
A SEVERELY disabled young boy with cerebral palsy has secured some 2 million in settlement of his High Court action over alleged negligence in the circumstances of his birth at a Dublin maternity hospital. The settlement was made without admission of liability. Sean Walsh, now aged seven, had sued the Coombe Lying-in-Hospital in Dublin through his mother Nuala Walsh, The Crescent, Graydon Manor, Robertstown, Naas, Co Kildare. 6: Todd Solondz revisits 'Happiness'
Todd Solondz in an undated handout photo. Solondz's latest project, "Life During Wartime," is a sequel to "Happiness" that began when he was rewriting a scene from the first film several years ago. (Francisco Roman via The New York Times) -- MAGS OUT/NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH STORY SLUGGED FILM TODD SOLONDZ BY JONAH WEINER. 7: Hospital faces £100k compensation claim
According to the Northampton Chronicle & Echo, the parents of nine-year-old Thomas Musgrove are to sue Northampton General Hospital - which has more than 600 beds and employs over 3,000 people - for an incident in which their son developed several debilitating problems. The child now has cerebral palsy, a speech disorder, possible visual issues and learning difficulties after he was initially admitted to the healthcare facility in December 2002 with an unknown illness. 8: Byrnes says, explaining that both are part of the human ...
Rifqa Bary, the Muslim convert to Christianity who said she fled her Ohio home because she feared her parents would kill her for abandoning their faith, is refusing chemotherapy to treat her uterine cancer. Rifqa, 17, believes prayer has healed her -- her cancer is in remission -- and she is now in a new legal fight with her parents, who are trying to force her to continue the chemotherapy doctors have recommended she undergo to keep the cancer from coming back. 9: Introducing a Non-Surgical, Non-Medical Treatment for Neurological Conditions
The GaitAid, developed by MediGait, is a new non-surgical and non-medical device that aids people with neurological diseases. Designed for those diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy and those who have had a stroke, GaitAid retrains the brain to improve walking to reduce and/or eliminate gait impairment. 10: California's government Looking for waste
CALIFORNIA'S candidates for governor, especially the two Republican ones, assign the blame for California's ongoing budget crisis with little difficulty. "I am running to rid our state government of waste, duplication and inefficiency," declares Meg Whitman, the Republican front-runner, pledging in her policy platform to "get control of runaway spending", primarily by cutting the state workforce. 11: Syracuse paying record $3 million to woman hit by DPW truck
Syracuse, NY - The Syracuse Common Council Monday approved the city's largest legal settlement in history - $3 million, which will go to a woman who was hit by a city pickup truck while she was nine-months pregnant last year. Tatalisha Mack was walking to the grocery store on a Saturday morning in August when a public works employee struck her, dragging Mack 30 feet at Erie Boulevard East and Westmoreland Avenue. 12: Hart: Estes playing well after 2009 injuries
Apparently taking off the final month or so on last year's PGA golf tour revitalized former Cooper High and University of Texas golfer Bob Estes, who has played in four tournaments and picked up four checks totaling $126,397. The big one came last week at Pebble Beach. where he finished tied for 16th worth $93,000 after firing a 4-under par 68. 13: Carotid artery occlusive disease - when your arteries narrow
The major risk factors for the disease include atherosclerosis or "hardening of the arteries" elsewhere in the body, a history of smoking, diabetes, hypertension, elevated cholesterol levels, poor nutrition, obesity, and lack of exercise. The carotid arteries are paired arteries in the neck that serve as the major blood supply to the brain. 14: Wheelchair athlete goes for sixth straight win at 3M Half Marathon & Relay
Austin's Kristen Messer is going for her sixth consecutive victory in the 3M Half Marathon female wheelchair division. News 8's Jeff Power has the story. One local athlete is taking her speed to new levels. "I was born in Dallas, Texas and we moved to Austin when I was two years old, so basically I am an Austinite." Kristen Messer is racing in the wheelchair division of the 3M Half Marathon this Sunday. 15: Should a Quadriplegic Mom Have Custody?
Aiden. Trais says that O'Neill is unfit to have custody of the boy because she is a quadriplegic, having lost all use of her legs and some use of her arms in a fall off a balcony a decade ago. Shortly after Aiden was born this summer, The Chicago Tribune carried a long and detailed article about the support system that surrounded O'Neill - she lives with her mother, has a full-time aide and a trained service dog - as well as the preparations she'd made to welcome the child. 16: She helped push C'ville parking ban into court
(in Carpentersville). I've never had a problem with anything," said Taillon, who has lived in the village since she was 5. That was before the Carpentersville Village Board passed a controversial ordinance banning large vehicles from parking on neighborhood streets and driveways late last year. 17: Guest View: Using your anti-bullying pulpit
THE street stretching in front of the President's Home, on the campus of the University of the Ozarks, serves as a bus stop for local school students. Pickup days gather a crowd of different aged and diversified youngsters. The other morning a police car was parked beside the bus. A benign interloper, I watched intently as two unsmiling officers spoke to attentive, fear-frozen little faces inside the bus. 18: Oregon Ducks Give VIP Tour To Okla. Fan
A girl who lives in the heart of Sooner country but pulls for the Oregon Ducks got the trip of a lifetime to see her favorite team play. Angel Wilson's parents said their daughter was born with cerebral palsy and brain damage that left her unable to talk or walk. Billy Wilson said his daughter's eyes light up whenever she watches the University of Oregon's football team on television. 19: Indians still haunted by worst industrial accident
BHOPAL, India Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has ever seen. The gas that swept through her poor neighborhood left her nearly blind in one eye, menopausal at 36, with searing headaches and breathlessness. 20: Rare and unusual dementias
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. He is in his fourth year as a dual specialty trainee. Olivia Fiertag is a specialist trainee with West London Mental Health NHS Trust. James Warner is a consultant psychiatrist with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Correspondence: Correspondence Dr Susham Gupta, Nightingale House, St Charles Hospital, Exmoor Street, London W10 6DZ, UK. 21: Shriners offering evaluation clinic in Beatrice
Sesostris Shrine Center and Blue Valley Shrine Club are hosting an evaluation clinic on Oct. 9 in Beatrice. The John Rhodes Evaluation Clinic will be 1-4 p.m. at Parkview Conference Center, Eighth and Tait Avenue. The evaluation is for children with bone, muscle or joint problems. What the hospital treats: Hand, foot, and limb deficiencies/deformities, limb length differences, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, hip problems, juvenile arthritis; spina bifida, neurological disorders, osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) and sports injuries. 22: CDC Says H1N1 Outbreak Shouldn't Close Schools
Harmon Unger, the deputy CEO for safety and security for the NYC Department of Education, informs a man and schoolchild outside P.S. 16 in the Queens borough of New York City that their school is closed on May 15, 2009 As the nation's 55 million children prepare for a new school year, the foremost question on many parents' and school administrators' minds is, How will we protect our students from swine flu? 23: Grand openings, blessing
It was a powerhouse gathering of top officials of Samsung and the Ponce family who held the blessing and grand opening of the very first Samsung Concept Shop in Western Visayas, at SM City and at Po's Digital at Araneta Street, Bacolod City, recently. No less than Samsung president and their top managers jetted in from Manila for the occasion. 24: Paralyzed man leads charge for healthcare reform
His aim is to raise awareness of the prevalence of the condition and, ultimately, foster health reform. His life changed forever on Jan. 2, 1988, when a simple act of floating in the surf in Martinique took a horrible turn. The undertow flipped the then-20-year-old over, smashing his head into the hard sand and leaving him paralyzed. 25: Delrey School starts speaker series on special needs topics
United Cerebral Palsy Delrey School's speaker series to address special needs topics begins May 27 with a lecture on cortical visual impairment, the leading cause of visual impairment in young children. Sandra Newcomb, a technical assistance specialist for the University of Maryland's Department of Special Education, will discuss the condition, which prevents the brain from consistently understanding and interpreting what the eye sees and suggest modifications for the home and classroom to help children with it. 26: Theology Professor Explores Hard Moral Choices in Neo-Natal Care
By Janet Sassi Charles Camosy, Ph.D., is not always politically correct. In fact, Camosy, assistant professor of theology, is outspoken about hot-button sociopolitical issues: Government embryonic stem cell funding? He is against it. Pulling Terry Schiavo's feeding tube? He saw cause for it. 27: Mum tells of Asperger's difficulty
A Cheddar Valley family has spoken out about the hardships involved in diagnosing Asperger's syndrome after reading about a Wedmore family's own experiences. After reading in the Gazette about how Wedmore resident Steve Leftley had his condition misdiagnosed for 20 years, reader Caroline Ainscough, who lives near Compton Bishop, said her daughter Jessica had experienced similar problems. 28: Autistic viewers find camaraderie in a cinema
For her 13th birthday, Mary Gwen Baker did what millions of other kids did over the weekend: She went to the movies to watch Miley Cyrus sing and dance as Hannah Montana. The lights were turned up. The volume turned down. And no one complained if audience members walked around, shouted or made repeated bathroom runs. 29: Physical-therapy clinic expands in new home
Jacob's mom, Lori Norton, praises the work of the clinicians at Northwest Rehabilitation Associates of South Salem. "He's competing again," Lori Norton said of the track and football athlete, a junior at West Salem High. "He's doing great," Brandt said. NWRA now has space to expand its business of healing. 30: Manipal Conducts Surgery to Treat Moyamoya
Neuro-surgery Manipal Conducts Surgery to Treat Moyamoya In Moyamoya, two major arteries which supply blood to the majority of the brain get progressively narrowed and blocked Manipal Hospital, Bangalore has recently conducted brain bypass surgery called Superficial Temporal artery-Middle Cerebral artery bypass (STMC bypass) to treat a patient suffering from Moyamoya disease. Page 1 of 1 [1] |