An Injection To Help With Heart Attacks and Strokes

Heart attacks and strokes are caused by blood flow being blocked by a clot or a bleed, starving parts of the body further down the stream of oxygen. Although this damages the body, the most permanent damage is caused later. When circulation is eventually restored and a "default of nature" (which means the body's own defenses attack the oxygen starved cells) occurs is when the most permanent damage happens. This effect, which kicks in around nine to twelve hours after an attack or stroke, causes inflammation and more than 80% of the permanent damage. This often leads to death and massive reduction in the quality of life of stroke and heart attack survivors. Due to this damage to the body, British-based scientists have created an antibody that reduces the physical scarring of the brain and heart after an attack by more than 60%.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8459488/New-heart-attack-jab-even-more-effective-than-statins.html

Teen Stabs Himselft To Death On Stage

Troubled 19-year-old Kipp Rusty Walker, stabbed himself to death on stage at Open Mic Night. This occurred at the Strictly Organic Coffee Company in front of around 15 people, after playing a song Sorry For All the Mess. The audience clapped and cheered mistaking Kipp's suicide as a piece of performance art, as Kipp repeatedly plunged a six-inch blade into his chest. When he collapsed into a pool of his own blood, the audience finally realized that it wasn't faked. They started screaming in horror and rushed to help him. He was taken to the hospital, but he died shortly after because his wounds were too severe. Kipp's bizarre suicide has left the community of Bend in Oregon stunned and wondering why he would end his life in such a public way. One of Kipp's friends claimed that he had been planning on killing himself in a public place for some time. Some are sympathetic and saddened by Kipp's death, while others feel sympathetic towards the audience instead, for being subjected to watching someone stab themselves to death in public.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377847/Kipp-Rusty-Walker-stabs-death-stage-open-mic-event.html

Baby Born To A Mom With Cancer

32 year-old Lisa Peterson Bender was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer, 11 weeks into her very first pregnancy. She decided to carry her child to term. She had four chemotherapy infusions during her second trimester, but stopped the drug treatment during December to allow her child to thrive and grow. Named after her favorite aunt a grandmother, Lisa had her daughter, Alice Virginia, four days before her due date. Alice weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 19 and 3/4 with dark hair, her grandfather's nose, and a healthy, doctors confirmed. Doctors say that as many as 1 in every 1,000 pregnant women gets cancer, with about 3,500 cases identified in the United States each year. The number of women diagnosed with breast cancer during pregnancy is going up because more and more women delay childbirth until their older. Also, developing cancer doesn't mean great things for your chances to conceive. "Fertility problems are one of the most difficult things young cancer patients face." Lisa's daughter Alice is in great health, and will be monitored just like any other newborn child. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42441066