8-Year-Old Boys Save Drowning Man at Beach Two 8-year-old boys in a young lifeguards training program rescued a man who was struggling in the ocean off Australia´s east coast.
Stars raise money for Haiti earthquake victims. George Clooney has hosted a benefit concert for Haiti earthquake victims featuring A-List names such as Madonna, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt,Jay-Z.
Other acts who appeared in the two-hour Hope for Haiti telethon included Bono and Rihanna, who pre-recorded their performances in London on Friday.
It was shown on all major US TV channels, YouTube and on MTV in the UK. It was broadcast on Haiti's Radio One.
An estimated 1.5 million people have been left homeless by the earthquake.
The benefit concert took place in New York, Los Angeles, London and Haiti, and is being screened again on UK TV channel MTV and its sister channel Viva from 2100 GMT on Saturday.
George Clooney, who organised the event, said: "At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for one another, we take care of each other especially in times of need.
"The Haitian people need our help, they need to know they're not alone, they need to know that that we still care."
The telethon's organisers were hoping for a record global audience.
More than 100 Hollywood and music stars took part.
Some of them performed while others, including director Steven Spielberg, singer Stevie Wonder and TV star Ellen DeGeneres, took telephone pledges from viewers.
The line-up featured the cream of Hollywood, including Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Cameron Diaz, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Robert Pattinson, Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Tim Robbins, Ben Stiller, Michael Keaton, Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton.
Madonna gave $250,000 (£155,000), Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gave $1m (£620,000), supermodel Giselle Bundchen gave $1.5m (£0.93m)and George Clooney had donated $1m during the telethon.
Last April 5th happened a real miracle in China when 115 miners were pulled alive from a flooded coal mine after being trapped for over a week. It was a common Monday in the mine when suddenly a pipe broke and started to spill water. Rescuers have been pumping water out of the flooded mine while workers were digging a tunnel broke into an old shaft filled with water. The first signs of life from underground came when tapping could be heard coming up the pipes. The rescuers then scrambled to understand the complicated situation underground and send down packages of glucose, milk and letters of encouragement. One read: "Dear fellow workers, the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the whole nation have been concerned for your safety all the time.... You must have confidence and hold on to the last!" Survivors were then brought out from a working platform, where rescuers had drilled a vertical hole last week. One of the surviving workers insisted on borrowing a cell phone from a doctor to call his family. "I'm good. How are you and the kid?" he asked his wife. Of the 153 initially trapped, there are still 38 miners in the shaft. Rescuers expressed confidence Monday they could be saved but did not say whether there had been any contact with them.
Last April 5th happened a real miracle in China when 115 miners were pulled alive from a flooded coal mine after being trapped for over a week. It was a common day in the mine when suddenly a pipe broke and started to spill water. Quickly the rescuers started to pump water out of the flooded mine while workers digging a tunnel broke into an old shaft filled with water. The first signs of life from underground came when tapping could be heard coming up the pipes. The rescuers then scrambled to understand the complicated situation underground and send down packages of glucose, milk and letters of encouragement. One read: "Dear fellow workers, the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the whole nation have been concerned for your safety all the time.... You must have confidence and hold on to the last!" Survivors were then brought out from a working platform, where rescuers had drilled a vertical hole last week. One of the surviving workers insisted on borrowing a cell phone from a doctor to call his family. "I'm good. How are you and the kid?" he asked his wife. Of the 153 initially trapped, there are still 38 miners in the shaft. Rescuers expressed confidence Monday they could be saved but did not say whether there had been any contact with them.
Inkjet-like Device Sprays Skin Cells Right Over Burns Inspired by a standard office inkjet printer, U.S. researchers have rigged up a device that can spray skin cells directly onto burn victims, quickly protecting and healing their wounds as an alterna.
"AFTER NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE, CHILD IS HONORED AS HERO"
Miranda, a 6-year-old little girl from Monett, Missouri, snuck out of her house with her 11-year-old brother and decided to go ice skating on a frozen pond by her home. In a matter of moments, Miranda’s life – and her family’s life – was forever changed. Suddenly, Miranda fell through the ice and was submerged in the freezing water. Her brother, Dillon, ran for help, and by the time Miranda’s mother found her, she had been face down in the water for more than half an hour. “I saw her floating face down and I jumped in the water,” Miranda’s mother, Christine, said. “I pulled her out.” Emergency crews were called and Miranda was immediately life-flighted to CoxHealth Systems in Springfield. Her body temperature was dangerously low and crews were unable to detect a heartbeat. “They [the doctors] said she was DOA,” Christine said. “It was five hours before they were able to get a pulse.” Despite the dismal shape Miranda was in upon her arrival to the hospital and the challenge doctors’ faced with getting a heart beat and regulating her body temperature, doctors were able to stabilize little Miranda. She was in a coma for four days and Christine was told to expect the worst. “The doctors told us she probably wouldn’t make it and she would have severe brain damage if she did,” Christine said. But on the fourth day, something miraculous and unexplainable happened. “Miranda just woke up and started asking for me,” said her mother. “She wanted to know where I was.” Christine said Miranda was saying a few words and was responding well. She said she remained in the hospital for about three weeks before she was released. While in the hospital, Miranda was chosen as Kids Wish Network’s Hero of the Month for CoxHealth Systems. The program recognizes children between the ages of 3 and 18 who have faced difficult or tragic circumstances and shown great courage. For the award, Miranda was given a $200 gift card, an official Kids Wish Network T-shirt and Hero certificate. Miranda has since been released from the hospital but continues to do rehabilitation therapy.
In Western Europe people are developing "disposable syndrome" ("síndrome del desechable", in Spanish), which includes among other things some people's attitude towards their shoes: they are no interested at all in trying to use them as long as possible.
The other side of the coin is Africa, where people are really concerned about the shoes and with their care. They have no opportunity to have many shoes, so prolonging their life with care and affection is very needed.
Poor people are the ones who appreciate more their shoes. There are people in such a low level in the socio-economic scale that can not even buy a pair of shoes. In order to try to solve this, Samuel Eto'o has performed a spectacular campaign to collect shoes for Africa.
The "Shoes for Africa" wants to be like a movie, a social phenomenon in which everyone deposits their shoes at the collection points.
A Mississippi infant is in the hospital and on the mend after he entered in a washing machine. Three men forced open the door, which had locked and they saved the baby, who had to be reanimated.
The mother said: "All I remember was a lot of screaming and crying "the a local business owner who came to the child's rescue tells:"It was horrible to see a baby like that".
TIME TO SMILE Things have not been so positive and optimistic lately. We just hear about economical crisis, volcano’s eruptions, earthquakes, corruption, murders, disappearances, hunger, poverty… and I can tell that none of them make us smile. Actually we know very little people who really do good things for others, and it is nice from time to time to hear a piece of good news. It is really nice to know that there are people who smile thanks to them, thanks to people like Luis. Just in case you were wondering who Luis is, I must tell you he was not that different from you and me. He was an ordinary kid from Madrid, who had the chance to study, grow up, form a family, get a job and set up. However, he came out to be everything but ordinary. Who would have left a comfortable life, just to help entire families and kids who suffered in return for nothing? Not many I can assure you, this is a job that requires of infinite generosity and unfortunately it is not something we can’t boast about nowadays. Nevertheless, he managed to do it. He left everything and started a business in Gambia, where he founded with other contributors the NGO, AFRICA’S SMILE. This organization is mainly destined to provide schooling, food, protection and a better life for all of those who need it. There has been no path of roses for them, but they have never lost their hopes. And neither should we.
A wave of webs and blogs are being incorporated to the global trend of spreading good news in the new year 2010.
After two years of recession and a few more of harming the environment, people are tired of hearing only bad news; there are a lot of ordinary citizens who create webs and blogs that only show good and happy news of the world to the world. It’s a global revolution – and we are involved in it.
Other websites which are doing the same as we are:
''37.5-TON BELL IS NOW THE CENTRAL PEACE'S FEATURE IN KOREA''
Several Korean clubs collected empty gun cartridges to be melted down and used to make a 37.5-ton bell that is now the central feature of the World Peace Bell Park in Hwacheon-gun.
Cartridges from conflicts in 29 other countries, including Ethiopia, Israel, and the Philippines, were also used in the bell. The bell is white and it seems like the peace symbol that use the hippies.
If you want to learn more about the monument you must go to the website: www.rotary.com or search it in google images
LUCHA CONTRA EL HAMBRE EN DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA MUJER
Para conmemorar el Día Internacional de la Mujer el 8 de marzo, la agencia de ayuda Concern Worldwide lanza su 'Las mujeres no Puede Esperar "campaña, pidiendo a la ONU y los líderes mundiales a actuar ahora para apoyar a las mujeres pobres en sus esfuerzos por acabar con el hambre, antes que sea demasiado finales. Las mujeres no puede esperar la campaña dice que las mujeres pobres son la clave para combatir el hambre y la malnutrición, ya que son en gran parte responsable del crecimiento, compra, venta y cocinar los alimentos consumidos en los países pobres. La investigación ha demostrado que las mujeres crecen hasta un 80% de los alimentos en el mundo en desarrollo y sin embargo con frecuencia son marginados e ignorados por las políticas destinadas a combatir el hambre y la pobreza rural y sus voces siguen siendo desconocidas.
"Si queremos tener alguna esperanza de cumplir el ODM de reducir a la mitad el hambre para 2015, las necesidades y las voces de las mujeres pobres deben ser prioridad urgente", dice Rose Caldwell, director ejecutivo de Concern Worldwide.
To mark International Women's Day on March 8th, aid agency Concern Worldwide is launching its 'Women Can't Wait' campaign, calling on the UN and world leaders to act now to support poor women in their efforts to stop hunger, before it is too late. The Women Can't Wait campaign says that poor women hold the key to combat hunger and malnutrition because they are largely responsible for growing, buying, selling and cooking food eaten in poor countries. Research has shown that women grow up to 80% of the food in the developing world and yet they are often sidelined and ignored by polices aimed at combat hunger and rural poverty and their voices remain unheard.
"If we are to have any hope of meeting the MDG of halving hunger by 2015, the needs and voices of poor women must be urgently prioritised," says Rose Caldwell, Executive Director for Concern Worldwide.
It was in 1976 when Eugene Verdu, a member of the Rotary Club of Belleville, went to Belize. There he was astonished by the number of children needing orthopedic care and the insufficiency of available treatments.
From this moment Eugene decided to help, bringing a few of the children to the United States for care. When this fact was widely known, local leaders approached the Shriners Hospital for Children in St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a program and help more children with these problems, and the hospital administrators agreed to provide this free medical care.
As we have seen, this is a perfect example of humanity and carity that has helped hundreds of children from Belize to receive orthopedic care through a program now in its fourth decade.
A recently studies describing new advances against breast cancer were released June 6 at a press briefing at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The studies presented provide us with new insight into the treatment and behavior of breast cancer, especially for difficult-to-treat metastatic disease,” said Eric P. Winer, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and moderator of the briefing. “We’re also learning the best ways to detect cancer spread in the lymph nodes, finding that in many cases, women can be spared from extensive, often painful, lymph node removal.” One study highlighted in the press briefing stated that a new agent, eribulin, derived from a marine sponge, increases survival among women with metastic breast cancer. A phase III randomized trial found that the chemotherapy agent, eribulin mesylate, extended median overall survival by 2.5 months among women with locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer who had already been heavily treated with conventional therapies.
It´s necessary be aware that the planet is in danger. Countries and companies are those who more concern our environment. Because of it we must improve this matter. In this, millions of participants are how for example, those of the World Conference of the Peoples on the Climate change and the Laws of the Mother Earth: these organizations are searching, means to create a positive change. Here the organizations, they have coincided with that the capitalism, it is the principal factor that damages our planet. Cochabamba is a clear example of the serious situation in which we are. This news is very positive, since these groups, they are obtaining it and of this form we can improve our planet.
Police praised a young man who came to the aid of an elderly woman on Saturday night, saying that he saved her from certain death.
20-year old Samuel Huffman pulled 82-year old Marguerite Jones from train tracks at a Lodi crossing mere moments before she would have been struck and killed by an oncoming train.
According to Jones, she was crossing the Union Pacific railroad tracks on Locust Street when her motorized wheelchair tipped over, causing her to fall onto the tracks.
"I knew I couldn't get up," she said. "I knew I couldn't get off the railroad tracks."
Authorities say Samuel Huffman was driving by when he say Jones lying on the tracks. Seeing an approaching train, he got out of his vehicle and managed to pull her from the tracks just as the train passed.
"It was either sit there and watch her get hit by a train or do something," Huffman said. "There's no way I could have just sat there."
The train passed so close that the engineer believed it had struck them, and stopped the train. A Lodi police lieutenant was nearby and witnessed the near-miss, and authorities said the train missed Samuel and Marguerite by three feet.
Both police and Marguerite say that if Samuel had not acted, she would have been killed. "He saved my life, and I love him for that," she said.
Jones was evaluated by emergency personnel and was determined to be uninjured. Her wheelchair was utterly destroyed.
8-Year-Old Boys Save Drowning Man at Beach
ReplyDeleteTwo 8-year-old boys in a young lifeguards training program rescued a man who was struggling in the ocean off Australia´s east coast.
BENEFIT CONCERT IN HAITI
ReplyDeleteStars raise money for Haiti earthquake victims.
George Clooney has hosted a benefit concert for Haiti earthquake victims featuring A-List names such as Madonna, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt,Jay-Z.
Other acts who appeared in the two-hour Hope for Haiti telethon included Bono and Rihanna, who pre-recorded their performances in London on Friday.
It was shown on all major US TV channels, YouTube and on MTV in the UK. It was broadcast on Haiti's Radio One.
An estimated 1.5 million people have been left homeless by the earthquake.
The benefit concert took place in New York, Los Angeles, London and Haiti, and is being screened again on UK TV channel MTV and its sister channel Viva from 2100 GMT on Saturday.
George Clooney, who organised the event, said: "At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for one another, we take care of each other especially in times of need.
"The Haitian people need our help, they need to know they're not alone, they need to know that that we still care."
The telethon's organisers were hoping for a record global audience.
More than 100 Hollywood and music stars took part.
Some of them performed while others, including director Steven Spielberg, singer Stevie Wonder and TV star Ellen DeGeneres, took telephone pledges from viewers.
The line-up featured the cream of Hollywood, including Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Cameron Diaz, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Robert Pattinson, Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Tim Robbins, Ben Stiller, Michael Keaton, Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton.
Madonna gave $250,000 (£155,000), Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gave $1m (£620,000), supermodel Giselle Bundchen gave $1.5m (£0.93m)and George Clooney had donated $1m during the telethon.
MIRACLES ARE POSSIBLE"
ReplyDeleteLast April 5th happened a real miracle in China when 115 miners were pulled alive from a flooded coal mine after being trapped for over a week.
It was a common Monday in the mine when suddenly a pipe broke and started to spill water. Rescuers have been pumping water out of the flooded mine while workers were digging a tunnel broke into an old shaft filled with water. The first signs of life from underground came when tapping could be heard coming up the pipes.
The rescuers then scrambled to understand the complicated situation underground and send down packages of glucose, milk and letters of encouragement. One read: "Dear fellow workers, the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the whole nation have been concerned for your safety all the time.... You must have confidence and hold on to the last!"
Survivors were then brought out from a working platform, where rescuers had drilled a vertical hole last week.
One of the surviving workers insisted on borrowing a cell phone from a doctor to call his family.
"I'm good. How are you and the kid?" he asked his wife.
Of the 153 initially trapped, there are still 38 miners in the shaft. Rescuers expressed confidence Monday they could be saved but did not say whether there had been any contact with them.
"MIRACLES ARE POSSIBLE"
ReplyDeleteLast April 5th happened a real miracle in China when 115 miners were pulled alive from a flooded coal mine after being trapped for over a week.
It was a common day in the mine when suddenly a pipe broke and started to spill water.
Quickly the rescuers started to pump water out of the flooded mine while workers digging a tunnel broke into an old shaft filled with water. The first signs of life from underground came when tapping could be heard coming up the pipes.
The rescuers then scrambled to understand the complicated situation underground and send down packages of glucose, milk and letters of encouragement. One read: "Dear fellow workers, the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the whole nation have been concerned for your safety all the time.... You must have confidence and hold on to the last!"
Survivors were then brought out from a working platform, where rescuers had drilled a vertical hole last week.
One of the surviving workers insisted on borrowing a cell phone from a doctor to call his family.
"I'm good. How are you and the kid?" he asked his wife.
Of the 153 initially trapped, there are still 38 miners in the shaft. Rescuers expressed confidence Monday they could be saved but did not say whether there had been any contact with them.
Inkjet-like Device Sprays Skin Cells Right Over Burns
ReplyDeleteInspired by a standard office inkjet printer, U.S. researchers have rigged up a device that can spray skin cells directly onto burn victims, quickly protecting and healing their wounds as an alterna.
"AFTER NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE, CHILD IS HONORED AS HERO"
ReplyDeleteMiranda, a 6-year-old little girl from Monett, Missouri, snuck out of her house with her 11-year-old brother and decided to go ice skating on a frozen pond by her home. In a matter of moments, Miranda’s life – and her family’s life – was forever changed.
Suddenly, Miranda fell through the ice and was submerged in the freezing water. Her brother, Dillon, ran for help, and by the time Miranda’s mother found her, she had been face down in the water for more than half an hour.
“I saw her floating face down and I jumped in the water,” Miranda’s mother, Christine, said. “I pulled her out.”
Emergency crews were called and Miranda was immediately life-flighted to CoxHealth Systems in Springfield. Her body temperature was dangerously low and crews were unable to detect a heartbeat.
“They [the doctors] said she was DOA,” Christine said. “It was five hours before they were able to get a pulse.”
Despite the dismal shape Miranda was in upon her arrival to the hospital and the challenge doctors’ faced with getting a heart beat and regulating her body temperature, doctors were able to stabilize little Miranda. She was in a coma for four days and Christine was told to expect the worst.
“The doctors told us she probably wouldn’t make it and she would have severe brain damage if she did,” Christine said.
But on the fourth day, something miraculous and unexplainable happened.
“Miranda just woke up and started asking for me,” said her mother. “She wanted to know where I was.”
Christine said Miranda was saying a few words and was responding well. She said she remained in the hospital for about three weeks before she was released.
While in the hospital, Miranda was chosen as Kids Wish Network’s Hero of the Month for CoxHealth Systems. The program recognizes children between the ages of 3 and 18 who have faced difficult or tragic circumstances and shown great courage. For the award, Miranda was given a $200 gift card, an official Kids Wish Network T-shirt and Hero certificate.
Miranda has since been released from the hospital but continues to do rehabilitation therapy.
In Western Europe people are developing "disposable syndrome" ("síndrome del desechable", in Spanish), which includes among other things some people's attitude towards their shoes: they are no interested at all in trying to use them as long as possible.
ReplyDeleteThe other side of the coin is Africa, where people are really concerned about the shoes and with their care. They have no opportunity to have many shoes, so prolonging their life with care and affection is very needed.
Poor people are the ones who appreciate more their shoes. There are people in such a low level in the socio-economic scale that can not even buy a pair of shoes. In order to try to solve this, Samuel Eto'o has performed a spectacular campaign to collect shoes for Africa.
The "Shoes for Africa" wants to be like a movie, a social phenomenon in which everyone deposits their shoes at the collection points.
A Mississippi infant is in the hospital and on the mend after he entered in a washing machine. Three men forced open the door, which had locked and they saved the baby, who had to be reanimated.
ReplyDeleteThe mother said: "All I remember was a lot of screaming and crying "the a local business owner who came to the child's rescue tells:"It was horrible to see a baby like that".
I like the news you have found, but be careful not to cut and paste!!!! I want to have those stories told in your own words, please.
ReplyDeleteI'm still missing some of you to post a comment.
TIME TO SMILE
ReplyDeleteThings have not been so positive and optimistic lately. We just hear about economical crisis, volcano’s eruptions, earthquakes, corruption, murders, disappearances, hunger, poverty… and I can tell that none of them make us smile.
Actually we know very little people who really do good things for others, and it is nice from time to time to hear a piece of good news. It is really nice to know that there are people who smile thanks to them, thanks to people like Luis.
Just in case you were wondering who Luis is, I must tell you he was not that different from you and me. He was an ordinary kid from Madrid, who had the chance to study, grow up, form a family, get a job and set up. However, he came out to be everything but ordinary.
Who would have left a comfortable life, just to help entire families and kids who suffered in return for nothing?
Not many I can assure you, this is a job that requires of infinite generosity and unfortunately it is not something we can’t boast about nowadays.
Nevertheless, he managed to do it. He left everything and started a business in Gambia, where he founded with other contributors the NGO, AFRICA’S SMILE.
This organization is mainly destined to provide schooling, food, protection and a better life for all of those who need it.
There has been no path of roses for them, but they have never lost their hopes. And neither should we.
OPTIMISTIC REVOLUTION ON THE WEB
ReplyDeleteA wave of webs and blogs are being incorporated to the global trend of spreading good news in the new year 2010.
After two years of recession and a few more of harming the environment, people are tired of hearing only bad news; there are a lot of ordinary citizens who create webs and blogs that only show good and happy news of the world to the world. It’s a global revolution – and we are involved in it.
Other websites which are doing the same as we are:
• www.elbuendiario.cl
• www.elmundoenpositivo.com
• www.noticiaspositivas.net
• www.optimistworld.com
• www.goodnewsgazette.net
• www.solobuenasnoticias.com
• www.cadenadeoptimismo.org
• estosololoarreglamosentretodos.org
''37.5-TON BELL IS NOW THE CENTRAL PEACE'S FEATURE IN KOREA''
ReplyDeleteSeveral Korean clubs collected empty gun cartridges to be melted down and used to make a 37.5-ton bell that is now the central feature of the World Peace Bell Park in Hwacheon-gun.
Cartridges from conflicts in 29 other countries, including Ethiopia, Israel, and the Philippines, were also used in the bell.
The bell is white and it seems like the peace symbol that use the hippies.
If you want to learn more about the monument you must go to the website: www.rotary.com or search it in google images
LUCHA CONTRA EL HAMBRE EN DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA MUJER
ReplyDeletePara conmemorar el Día Internacional de la Mujer el 8 de marzo, la agencia de ayuda Concern Worldwide lanza su 'Las mujeres no Puede Esperar "campaña, pidiendo a la ONU y los líderes mundiales a actuar ahora para apoyar a las mujeres pobres en sus esfuerzos por acabar con el hambre, antes que sea demasiado finales.
Las mujeres no puede esperar la campaña dice que las mujeres pobres son la clave para combatir el hambre y la malnutrición, ya que son en gran parte responsable del crecimiento, compra, venta y cocinar los alimentos consumidos en los países pobres. La investigación ha demostrado que las mujeres crecen hasta un 80% de los alimentos en el mundo en desarrollo y sin embargo con frecuencia son marginados e ignorados por las políticas destinadas a combatir el hambre y la pobreza rural y sus voces siguen siendo desconocidas.
"Si queremos tener alguna esperanza de cumplir el ODM de reducir a la mitad el hambre para 2015, las necesidades y las voces de las mujeres pobres deben ser prioridad urgente", dice Rose Caldwell, director ejecutivo de Concern Worldwide.
FIGHTING HUNGER ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY
ReplyDeleteTo mark International Women's Day on March 8th, aid agency Concern Worldwide is launching its 'Women Can't Wait' campaign, calling on the UN and world leaders to act now to support poor women in their efforts to stop hunger, before it is too late.
The Women Can't Wait campaign says that poor women hold the key to combat hunger and malnutrition because they are largely responsible for growing, buying, selling and cooking food eaten in poor countries. Research has shown that women grow up to 80% of the food in the developing world and yet they are often sidelined and ignored by polices aimed at combat hunger and rural poverty and their voices remain unheard.
"If we are to have any hope of meeting the MDG of halving hunger by 2015, the needs and voices of poor women must be urgently prioritised," says Rose Caldwell, Executive Director for Concern Worldwide.
Helping Children with Disabilities in Belize
ReplyDeleteIt was in 1976 when Eugene Verdu, a member of the Rotary Club of Belleville, went to Belize. There he was astonished by the number of children needing orthopedic care and the insufficiency of available treatments.
From this moment Eugene decided to help, bringing a few of the children to the United States for care. When this fact was widely known, local leaders approached the Shriners Hospital for Children in St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a program and help more children with these problems, and the hospital administrators agreed to provide this free medical care.
As we have seen, this is a perfect example of humanity and carity that has helped hundreds of children from Belize to receive orthopedic care through a program now in its fourth decade.
Studies Report Progress Against Breast Cancer
ReplyDeleteA recently studies describing new advances against breast cancer were released June 6 at a press briefing at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The studies presented provide us with new insight into the treatment and behavior of breast cancer, especially for difficult-to-treat metastatic disease,” said Eric P. Winer, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and moderator of the briefing. “We’re also learning the best ways to detect cancer spread in the lymph nodes, finding that in many cases, women can be spared from extensive, often painful, lymph node removal.”
One study highlighted in the press briefing stated that a new agent, eribulin, derived from a marine sponge, increases survival among women with metastic breast cancer. A phase III randomized trial found that the chemotherapy agent, eribulin mesylate, extended median overall survival by 2.5 months among women with locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer who had already been heavily treated with conventional therapies.
THE MESSAGE THAT MUST COME TO ALL.
ReplyDeleteCochabamba, Bolivia.
It´s necessary be aware that the planet is in danger.
Countries and companies are those who more concern our environment.
Because of it we must improve this matter.
In this, millions of participants are how for example, those of the World Conference of the Peoples on the Climate change and the Laws of the Mother Earth: these organizations are searching, means to create a positive change.
Here the organizations, they have coincided with that the capitalism, it is the principal factor that damages our planet.
Cochabamba is a clear example of the serious situation in which we are.
This news is very positive, since these groups, they are obtaining it and of this form we can improve our planet.
Man Saves Elderly Woman From Certain Death
ReplyDeletePolice praised a young man who came to the aid of an elderly woman on Saturday night, saying that he saved her from certain death.
20-year old Samuel Huffman pulled 82-year old Marguerite Jones from train tracks at a Lodi crossing mere moments before she would have been struck and killed by an oncoming train.
According to Jones, she was crossing the Union Pacific railroad tracks on Locust Street when her motorized wheelchair tipped over, causing her to fall onto the tracks.
"I knew I couldn't get up," she said. "I knew I couldn't get off the railroad tracks."
Authorities say Samuel Huffman was driving by when he say Jones lying on the tracks. Seeing an approaching train, he got out of his vehicle and managed to pull her from the tracks just as the train passed.
"It was either sit there and watch her get hit by a train or do something," Huffman said. "There's no way I could have just sat there."
The train passed so close that the engineer believed it had struck them, and stopped the train. A Lodi police lieutenant was nearby and witnessed the near-miss, and authorities said the train missed Samuel and Marguerite by three feet.
Both police and Marguerite say that if Samuel had not acted, she would have been killed. "He saved my life, and I love him for that," she said.
Jones was evaluated by emergency personnel and was determined to be uninjured. Her wheelchair was utterly destroyed.