Named: The Baby Boy Who Was
Nazis' First Euthanasia Victim
German historians have identified the family whose request to Adolf Hitler that their disabled son be "put to sleep" was the catalyst for the Nazi euthanasia programme. The five-month-old boy, who was given a lethal drug after Hitler sent his own doctor to examine him, has been named as Gerhard Kretschmar, the son of a farm hand.
Terry Nichols' Case on 'Brink of Dismissal'
Oklahoma prosecutors have warned Attorney General John Ashcroft a lack of cooperation by the federal government has ''hamstringed'' the prosecution and jeopardized the state bombing case against Terry Nichols to the point that it's on ''the brink of dismissal.'' In a letter to Ashcroft released on Friday, Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane says an Oklahoma judge may dismiss the case against Nichols because his defense team has not been allowed to depose federal government witnesses.
Pro-Lifers Sees Mixed Reactions
About 20 people lined Highway 6 East Saturday with billboard-sized pictures of aborted babies, living babies and religious images. The demonstration, part of the "Face the Truth" tour, began around 10:30 a.m. and lasted until 1 p.m. The demonstration is part of a tour of college campuses by the group and McMillian said they choose college games because they want to reach college-aged people, and because there is a large influx of traffic for a football game.
INTO THE STORM!
Virginia Show the Truth Tour
Cut Short by Hurricane Isabel.
The Tour was scheduled for Sept. 15-19 but was cut short as we traveled toward the coast of Virginia and into the storm. We cut it short, headed home and battened down the hatches. The Murch Family lost power at Covenant Farm for four days, and the generator motor blew on Day One. God provided for us though, and our freezer full of game and other food was protected as a local business owner, hearing of our predicament, let us borrow a spare one he had.
Charge Nixed In Unborn Boy's Death
Denver Post buries closely watched
story in middle of Regional briefs page
COLORADO SPRINGS - In a closely watched case that could have set a Colorado precedent, a man charged with killing a pregnant woman last spring will not be charged with also killing her unborn son. A charge of child abuse resulting in death against Daniel Self, 46, was dismissed during a hearing Thursday by District Judge Gil Martinez. Prosecutors had said they know of no case charging someone with such a death. Self is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Leah Kathleen Gee, 24, who died two days after she was shot March 27.
DA Won't Charge Woman Who Left Baby In Car
MIDDLETON, Wis. -- Prosecutors declined to charge a woman Thursday who found her infant daughter dead after she apparently forgot about the child and left the baby in her car for more than eight hours while she was at work. Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said he consulted with Middleton police and the Dane County Coroner's Office before deciding criminal charges were not warranted against the woman. He said the woman, whose 2-year-old son is disabled, suffers from sleep deprivation and stress and never meant to hurt her daughter.
Newborn Left At N.J. Eatery
A newborn baby, abandoned on the doorstep of a New Jersey pizzeria early yesterday, was found by a passer-by. The baby, wearing a white T-shirt with red sleeves and the word "bike" on it, was only an hour old when he was found at a Bloomfield Pizzeria at around 6 a.m., according to Bloomfield Police Chief Jack McNiff.
Man Accused Of Shooting Pregnant Teen
PHILADELPHIA -- Police say a 23-year-old man is in custody, facing charges in the shooting of his 14-year-old pregnant girlfriend. It happened Sunday morning in the 2000 block of south 66th Street. The condition of the woman is unknown, but officials say she and her unborn child are expected to survive.
Cops: Mom Abused Infant
CENTRAL FALLS -- The young mother of an infant admitted in critical condition at Hasbro Children’s Hospital Thursday is facing charges of first-degree child abuse in what authorities believe may be a case of "shaken baby syndrome." The infant, Fernando Cortez, born seven weeks ago tomorrow, remained in critical condition Sunday night. The child’s parents, Jerrany Ventura, 18, and Fernando Cortez, 20, of 81 Summit St., third floor, took the child to Hasbro about 4:15 p.m. Thursday. After examining the boy, attending physician Dr. Amy Goldberg contacted police.
PA Mother Pleads in Baby's Death
CLARION, PA -- A former Clarion University student will be sentenced next month after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her newborn baby last year. Karen Danielle Mako, 21, of Darlington, Beaver County, was charged after state police said she gave birth in a dormitory shower Oct. 19. Police said Mako wrapped the infant, whom she said she believed was stillborn, in paper towels and put his body in a duffel bag.
Infant Tests Positive For Cocaine
A 7-week-old boy tested positive for cocaine after his mother's live-in boyfriend was arrested by the Fort Bend County Narcotics Task Force during a raid of their Stafford apartment Tuesday afternoon. Jeannie Gage, spokeswoman for the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, said the boy was removed from his mother's custody by Texas Children Protective Services after the narcotics task force raided an apartment located in the 10500 block of Fountain Lake Drive.
Woman Pushes Fetal Homicide Measure
SOUTH SHORE Charmaine Holbrook daughter, Sady Raelynn, died as a result of a June 25 traffic accident on Ky. 7 in Greenup County. She was 37 weeks old. But, she had never drawn a breath outside of her mother's womb. Because of that, the man who allegedly caused the accident can't be charged with a crime stemming from the death of Holbrook's unborn child. Kentucky law does not recognize "fetal homicide" as a criminal offense. Under current law, a fetus is not considered a person until a live birth occurs.
Peterson Case Delay Possible
Scott Peterson's defense team will ask a judge to postpone his much anticipated preliminary hearing, sources close to the case said Friday. Peterson's lead attorney, Mark Geragos, was looking to push back the Oct. 20 hearing because a Los Angeles murder trial in which he represents one of the defendants is behind schedule, sources said.
Defense Spared No Expense
The Peterson saga marked Rudolf's second high-profile murder trial before a national Court TV audience in recent years. In 2001, Rudolf's client Rae Carruth, a former Charlotte Panthers football player, was acquitted of first-degree murder in the death of Cherica Adams, who was carrying Carruth's unborn child. But Carruth was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the case and was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.
Skeeter Virus Hits 10,000
Acambis lab searches for vaccine
Since the outbreak of West Nile virus in Queens four years ago, the disease has spread to all but three states in the lower 48, infecting more than 10,200 people and killing 421. The virus can enter the body in myriad ways. An infected woman can pass it to her unborn child or to her nursing baby. It can also invade its victims through blood from an infected donor. No sooner had the '99 outbreak been confirmed as West Nile virus than researchers began hunting for a remedy. "We sent two scientists to the CDC lab [at Fort Collins, Colo.] with the goal of cloning the envelope protein of the virus to use in constructing a genetically engineered vaccine," said Thomas Monath, chief scientist at Acambis, the front-runner in developing a vaccine.
Chemotherapy During Pregnancy
Case study of a woman and her unborn baby boy who went through chemo together. Usually, when a pregnant woman finds she has cancer, she must terminate the pregnancy due to chemotherapy.[?] Stephanie Robinson discovered a cancerous lump in her breast in her 6th month of pregnancy. She had surgery to remove the tumor; her doctor told her she may not live if she waited until she had her baby to start chemotherapy.
Study: Drug Used to Suppress Estrogen Prevents Breast Cancer Recurrence -- (Estrogen is Used in Birth Control Pills)
TORONTO -- Researchers were so encouraged by early results from a study on preventing breast cancer recurrence that they halted their work so more women can benefit from the findings. The study, published online Thursday by the New England Journal of Medicine, showed breast cancer patients who follow up five years of tamoxifen treatment with letrozole, an estrogen suppresser, cut the risk of recurrence by nearly half.
FDA Approves Estrogen-Based Skin
Lotion To Treat Hot Flashes
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved new estrogen-based skin lotion to treat hot flashes and night sweats associated with menopause. The FDA says the product will contain the same warning labels as other forms of menopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Earlier this year, the government began warning women and their doctors that such therapies containing estrogen and progestin may be associated with increased risks of heart disease, stroke, and breast cancer.
Estrogen Drug Blamed For
Blurring Gender Characteristics
Wayne Beyer used to say he was a DES son. That was before the sex change operation. "Now I guess you could call me a DES daughter," said Beyer, 51, a retired ophthalmic surgeon from Chevy Chase, Md., who made the transition to life as a woman earlier this year. "I don't think it's any coincidence that my mother took a potent estrogen and an XY fetus ends up feeling like a woman" said Beyer. "Give frogs and fish estrogen and you get hermaphroditic changes."
One's Word Against the Other
Research suggests stem cell data was misinterpreted
The new results are significant, scientists said, because the earlier research had been used by opponents of human embryo research to argue that embryo studies were unnecessary. If the new results are confirmed in other experiments, proponents of human embryo research could gain ground in their efforts to stave off state and federal restrictions on their work. The California team could find no evidence that marrow cells can, by themselves, become heart, liver or brain cells. "This suggests that those previous papers were over interpreted," Alvarez-Buylla said. James Battey, director of the National Institute on Deafness and other Communicative Disorders and chairman of the Stem Cell Task Force at the National Institutes of Health, lauded the study for helping to clear up confusion in the field, calling it "as carefully done a piece of work as I've seen."