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Swine Flu Dystonia: The Cheerleader's Story Video

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:12:15 +0000

This is the story of a beautiful cheerleader, who got swine flu that ended up with Dystonia. The disease turned girls life upside down. See in this video, what hard time she’s having, she can’t walk forward without twisting but walks backward normally. According to experts it’s one rare neurological disorder. Watch the full video to see details and also see what expert say about the condition:

Swine Flu Vaccine: 1 Million More Doses To Be Produced

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:46:33 +0000

U.S. officials reported that the addition of another million doses H1N1 swine flu vaccine, brings the total so far to 23.2 million doses. Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said that they know people are frustrated by the inability to immediately get vaccine right now and also by waiting in lines and by uncertainty.Production delays have resulted in far fewer doses of the H1N1 vaccine than federal officials had hoped for by this time. The first estimates called for 40 million doses by the end of October and 190 million doses by year’s end.

Read the detailed report at US News

Girl With Mermaid Syndrome Dies

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:39:36 +0000

Shiloh Pepin, a 10 years old girl who was born with sirenomelia, has died last Friday in Maine. Sirenomelia is a condition most commonly known as mermaid syndrome.

Sirenomelia or mermaid syndrome is a condition in which one’s legs are fused together from the waist down. Pepin did not have any genital organs or a large intestine. Most children born with sirenomelia die soon after birth, but Pepin managed to live 10 years.

NFL Breast Cancer Awareness

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:32:56 +0000

“October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the gestures by NFL players, Major League baseball players, NASCAR drivers and other public figures – even the front cover of Sports Illustrated – are all helping to bring the plight of millions of women to light”, reports Times Bulletin.

The first such event started in 1985 as a week-long program to provide information to the public about the disease, and now it’s a whole month dedicated for the cause. This great success has been the result of constant efforts of national public service organizations, professional medical associations, government agencies and thousands of public figures.

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the United States after skin cancer. According to the American Cancer Society under 200,000 new cases will be diagnosed this year and there are 2.5 million breast cancer survivors living in the United States, and 40,000 more women will succumb to the disease this year and die.