Kidnap Victims Lucky to Survive Birth, Miscarriages

Two of the women allegedly abducted by Ariel Castro 10 years ago in Cleveland are lucky to be alive after one of them suffered five miscarriages because Castro allegedly punched her in the gut and the other was forced to give birth in a basement with no medical help, obstetricians said today.

Michelle Knight, 32, was impregnated five times by Castro, but he aborted the fetuses by punching her repeatedly in the abdomen, according to a police report obtained by ABC News affiliate WEWS-TV.

"To be quite honest, I've been doing obstetrics 17 years and spent 10 as a midwife, and I've never actually heard of somebody being beaten so severely that it would cause a miscarriage," said certified nurse and midwife Pam Hetrick, who works at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. She did not treat Knight.

RELATED: Cleveland Kidnap Suspect Charged with Rapes, Abductions

Knight probably miscarried when she was at least 12 weeks pregnant because it's unlikely that blunt trauma would cause a miscarriage before that, said Dr. Taraneh Shirazian, an OB/GYN at Mount Sinai Medical Center who directs its global health program. This is because the uterus is small enough to be protected by the pelvis during the first trimester, but by the second trimester, Knight's belly would have been exposed. Then, when Castro allegedly punched her, she would have had a placental abruption, cutting off the baby's blood supply.

Kidnap Victim's Mom: 'I Didn't Know How Strong She Was' Watch Video Kidnap Suspect's Daughter 'Disappointed, Embarrassed' Watch Video Alleged Kidnapping Victims Left House Twice in 10 Years Watch Video

"It's still pretty unusual," Shirazian said. "In order for that to happen, I would assume it was pretty brutal blunt trauma."

Complications Knight could have faced included hemorrhaging and infection, Hetrick said.

The fetuses also could have died inside Knight without causing her to go into labor, putting her at risk for even more complications, such as a fatal blood clotting disorder, Hetrick said. If Knight's cervix was repeatedly forced open to remove the fetuses, she could face problems in future pregnancies.

It's not clear whether Berry delivered prematurely.

Hetrick said Berry could have faced complications during birth including infection and bleeding, but she and the baby could have also died if her labor stopped progressing. She said that although Ohio has seen a rise in home births, those are usually attended by a midwife or someone else with birth training. If labor stops progressing, or another complication occurs, they know what to do.

"Typically women who choose home birth, if they get into trouble, they will come and get medical care," Hetrick said. "It doesn't sound like he would have taken her to medical care if there would have been an obstetric complication. She could have died."

Dr. Kimberly Fortner, an OBGYN at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said that Berry is also lucky that her red blood cells didn't lack a certain protein, called the Rh factor, which could have caused her immune system to attack the baby's blood if it didn't match her blood. About 20 percent of Caucasian women lack this protein, she said, but this is easily fixed with an injection of a drug called Rh immunoglobulin.

But Berry wouldn't have had that injection.

"We know that women can give birth without intervention," Hetrick said. "Amanda didn't have that choice. Amanda was left in the basement in the kiddie pool to give birth by herself without any support, and it had to be extremely terrifying."

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cleveland-kidnap-victims-died-birth-miscarriages/story?id=19144386

Christian Bale visits victims Christian Bale

You Better Redneckinize?June Shannon & Sugar Bear Getting Hitched!

You Better Redneckinize…June Shannon & Sugar Bear Getting Hitched!

Honey Boo Boo’s mother June Shannon is set to wed Sugar Bear today in Georgia! The reality star mom and Sugar Bear, whose real name is Mike Thompson, have been together for nine years and June is finally ready to get hitched after shedding over 100 pounds. June Shannon and Sugar Bear met on an ...

You Better Redneckinize…June Shannon & Sugar Bear Getting Hitched! Stupid Celebrities Gossip Stupid Celebrities Gossip News

Source: http://stupidcelebrities.net/2013/05/you-better-redneckinize-june-shannon-sugar-bear-getting-hitched/

new york jets etch a sketch romney sean payton saints bounty program toulouse france ny jets ny jets

Daniel Browne: Standing Up for the 'T' Girls

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short,
Wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's OK to be a boy,
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading,
'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading,
But secretly you'd love to know what it's like,
Wouldn't you, what it feels like for a girl?

That's the opening of "What It Feels Like for a Girl" by Madonna. Released in 2000, those words have struck a chord with me ever since. Although I have never thought about what the meaning of the song is, I have interpreted the introduction and applied it to my thoughts on cross dressing and transgender people, and I think it is true to a degree. I associate with a diverse range of people, and the female-assigned people I know who dress or live as men have a much easier time than the male-assigned people I know who dress or live as women. The former is more socially acceptable, and that disappoints me.

Referring back to the Madonna lyrics, I actually wouldn't want to know what it feels like for a girl, or what it feels like to be a girl. I do support those who do, though. If a man chooses to dress as a woman, then that should be accepted. It's an expression of who he is. And if someone makes the brave decision to transition from male to female, then that should also be supported.

I know a male-assigned person who dresses as and lives as a woman full-time, and she also identifies as a woman. When going out in public, she is often ridiculed, and people stare at her like she's a circus freak. She doesn't care. As far as she is concerned, she's living life as she wants to. Obviously, I applaud that, but I don't like to see people being ridiculed.

I also know many women people who wear men's clothing. Nothing is thought of this, though. It is seen as normal, and some people even see it as cute. I see no difference between men wearing women's clothes and women wearing men's clothes. I accept both as norms.

I think part of the issue is that male-assigned people are expected to behave like men, whatever that means. I am a man (obviously), and although I like having a beer and watching football, I also like to dance to "Wuthering Heights" while pretending I'm Kate Bush. Is that what behaving like a man is? I have no idea, and my belief is that people should behave in any way they choose to, as long as it does no harm to others. I think that's a fair way of thinking, right?

If I want to wear a dress or a skirt, then I should be able to do so without fear of ridicule. Who says that those clothes are exclusively for women anyway? I think it's a bit narrow-minded, really. All clothes should be for anyone to wear and should not be designated as exclusively for men or women. I am aware that my view will be seen as too progressive or even mad by some, but, again, I think I am being fair.

Another example is the little boy who likes to have his toenails painted. Some people have said that only women and girls should have their nails painted, but I disagree. Men have been wearing makeup and painting their nails for a long time, and even I have been known to indulge myself. But it's not about being gay; it's about expressing myself as an individual. The child I refer to doesn't consider sexuality when wanting his nails painted; he just wants it done because it's what he likes and how he expresses himself.

By now you have probably worked out that I am not a fan of heteronormative ideals. I detest them and reject them completely. I think that society also needs to drop those ideals if there is to be true progress. Times are changing, and things are better for trans people now than they were in the past, when they were subjected to electroshock "therapy," but there is still some way to go. The trans women and cross-dressing men I know still have a difficult time. Ridicule is still rife, and it's not acceptable.

So what can we do to help? I believe that we all have a social responsibility to assist in breaking down stereotypes and heteronormative ideals. We can stand alongside our cross-dressing and transgender friends as allies and stand up for them. People power is the only way that things change, and we need to stand together as a community to ensure progress.

Boys can wear skirts, grow their hair long and wear heels, because it's OK to be a girl.

?

Follow Daniel Browne on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MrDanielBrowne

"; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-browne/standing-up-for-the-t-girls_b_3208035.html

Real Madrid Neverwinter George Jones tim tebow Farrah Abraham Tape farrah abraham amber heard

Bangladesh toll 547; search becomes more gruesome

A young lady wails over the phone as she tells her family that she had identified one of the many bodies at a morgue to be her relative, Saturday, May 4, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. In the aftermath of a building collapse that killed more than 530 people, Bangladesh's garment manufacturers may face a choice of reform or perish. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

A young lady wails over the phone as she tells her family that she had identified one of the many bodies at a morgue to be her relative, Saturday, May 4, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. In the aftermath of a building collapse that killed more than 530 people, Bangladesh's garment manufacturers may face a choice of reform or perish. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

People look at portraits of missing garment workers from the collapse of a garment factory building plastered on the doors of a school-turned-morgue Saturday, May 4, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The death toll in the accident rose to more than 530 on Saturday, a day after the country's finance minister downplayed the impact of the disaster on the garment industry, saying he didn't think it was "really serious." (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

A young woman covers her nose to block out the stench from rotting bodies at a morgue where bodies recovered from the garment factory collapse are kept for identification Saturday, May 4, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The death toll in the accident rose to more than 530 on Saturday, a day after the country's finance minister downplayed the impact of the disaster on the garment industry, saying he didn't think it was "really serious." (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Workers at a school-turned-morgue place the body of a victim from last week's collapse of a garment factory building into a coffin, Saturday, May 4, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The death toll in the accident rose to more than 530 on Saturday, a day after the country's finance minister downplayed the impact of the disaster on the garment industry, saying he didn't think it was "really serious." (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Workers at a school-turned-morgue place the body of a victim from last week's collapse of a garment factory building into a coffin, Saturday, May 4, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The death toll in the accident rose to more than 530 on Saturday, a day after the country's finance minister downplayed the impact of the disaster on the garment industry, saying he didn't think it was "really serious." (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ? Ten days after the horrifying collapse of a garment-factory building, life has become still more gruesome for crews working to recover bodies at the site. The death toll rose to 547 on Saturday and the stench of decaying flesh was sickening evidence that the work is not yet done.

Rescue workers said some bodies have deteriorated so badly that they have found bones without flesh. Since the April 24 collapse in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, high temperatures have generally been 32 degrees C (90 degrees F) or above, and lows have rarely dipped below 27 C (80 F).

"The bodies are smelling. We are using air freshener to work here," said Mohibul Alam, a firefighter at the collapse scene. The odor of decay is overpowering just the same.

Bodies have decomposed beyond recognition, Alam said, but he added that some could still be identified because the victims' identification cards were found with them.

Some of the victims who had been closest to escaping appear to be among the last to be recovered. Only now have rescuers dug deep enough, using cranes and other equipment, to approach the stairs of the ground floor.

The official death toll from the collapse reached 547 Saturday and was expected to climb. The official number of missing has been 149 since Wednesday, though unofficial estimates are higher.

The disaster is likely the worst garment-factory accident ever, and there have been few industrial accidents of any kind with a higher death toll. It surpassed long-ago garment-industry disasters such as New York's Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, which killed 146 workers in 1911, and more recent tragedies such as a 2012 fire that killed about 260 people in Pakistan and one in Bangladesh that same year that killed 112.

Bangladesh's $20 billion garment industry supplies retailers around the world and accounts for about 80 percent of the impoverished country's exports. The collapse has raised strong doubts about retailers' claims that they could ensure worker safety through self-regulation.

Five garment factories operated in the Rana Plaza building that collapsed, and many brand labels have been found in the wreckage, but only two retailers, Britain's Primark and Canada's Loblaw Inc., have acknowledged that their clothes were being made there at the time. Loblaw's CEO has decried the "deafening silence" from what he said were more than two dozen other international retailers who used garment factories in the collapsed building.

Mainuddin Khandkar, the head of a government committee investigating the disaster, said Friday that substandard building materials, combined with the vibration of the heavy machines used by the five garment factories inside the Rana Plaza building, led to the horrific collapse. Because of a power outage, heavy generators were turned on about 15 minutes before the building fell, he said.

The building developed cracks a day before the collapse, and Rana Plaza owner Mohammed Sohel Rana called engineer Abdur Razzak Khan to inspect it. Khan appeared on television that night and said he told Rana the building should be evacuated.

Police also issued an evacuation order, but witnesses say that hours before the collapse, Rana told people that the building was safe and garment factory managers told their workers to go inside.

Rana has been arrested is expected to be charged with negligence, illegal construction and forcing workers to join work, crimes punishable by a maximum of seven years in jail. Authorities have not said if more serious crimes will be added.

On Thursday, Khan was arrested as well, on a charge of negligence. Police said he worked as a consultant to Rana when three illegal floors were added to what was supposed to be a five-story building.

The Bangladesh High Court also has ordered the government to confiscate Rana's property and freeze the assets of the owners of the factories in Rana Plaza so the money can be used to pay the salaries of their workers.

Savar's mayor and another local official have been suspended in an apparent effort by higher levels of Bangladesh's government to fend off accusations that it is in part to blame for the tragedy because of weak oversight of the building's construction.

In New Delhi on Friday, Bangladesh Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith downplayed the impact of the disaster on the garment industry, which is by far the country's biggest source of export income.

"The present difficulties ... well, I don't think it is really serious ? it's an accident," Muhith said. "And the steps that we have taken in order to make sure that it doesn't happen, they are quite elaborate and I believe that it will be appreciated by all."

The government made similar promises after the November garment factory fire that killed 112 people, saying it would inspect factories for safety and pull the licenses of those that failed. That plan has yet to be implemented.

Retailers have been drawn to Bangladesh as a source of clothing largely because of its cheap labor. The minimum wage for a garment worker is $38 a month, after being nearly doubled this year following violent protests by workers. According to the World Bank, the per capita income in Bangladesh was about $64 a month in 2011.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2013-05-04-AS-Bangladesh-Building-Collapse/id-ee5de4f84ea64dba9f98c923ec2d6767

nba dunk contest 2012 act of valor woody guthrie benson henderson 2012 dunk contest edgar vs henderson berkshire hathaway

Gray hair and vitiligo reversed at the root

May 3, 2013 ? Hair dye manufacturers are on notice: The cure for gray hair is coming. That's right, the need to cover up one of the classic signs of aging with chemical pigments will be a thing of the past thanks to a team of European researchers. In a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal people who are going gray develop massive oxidative stress via accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle, which causes our hair to bleach itself from the inside out, and most importantly, the report shows that this massive accumulation of hydrogen peroxide can be remedied with a proprietary treatment developed by the researchers described as a topical, UVB-activated compound called PC-KUS (a modified pseudocatalase). What's more, the study also shows that the same treatment works for the skin condition, vitiligo.

"To date, it is beyond any doubt that the sudden loss of the inherited skin and localized hair color can affect those individuals in many fundamental ways," said Karin U. Schallreuter, M.D., study author from the Institute for Pigmentary Disorders in association with E.M. Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany and the Centre for Skin Sciences, School of Life Sciences at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. "The improvement of quality of life after total and even partial successful repigmentation has been documented."

To achieve this breakthrough, Schallreuter and colleagues analyzed an international group of 2,411 patients with vitiligo. Of that group, 57 or 2.4 percent were diagnosed with strictly segmental vitiligo (SSV), and 76 or 3.2 percent were diagnosed with mixed vitiligo, which is SSV plus non-segmental vitiligo (NSV). They found that for the first time, patients who have SSV within a certain nerval distribution involving skin and eyelashes show the same oxidative stress as observed in the much more frequent general NSV, which is associated with decreased antioxidant capacities including catalase, thioredoxin reductase, and the repair mechanisms methionine sulfoxide reductases. These findings are based on basic science and clinical observations, which led to successful patient outcomes regarding repigmentation of skin and eyelashes.

"For generations, numerous remedies have been concocted to hide gray hair," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal, "but now, for the first time, an actual treatment that gets to the root of the problem has been developed. While this is exciting news, what's even more exciting is that this also works for vitiligo. This condition, while technically cosmetic, can have serious socio-emotional effects of people. Developing an effective treatment for this condition has the potential to radically improve many people's lives."

Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:

Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:

---

Story Source:

The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.

Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.

---

Journal Reference:

1. K. U. Schallreuter, M. A. E. L. Salem, S. Holtz, A. Panske. Basic evidence for epidermal H2O2/ONOO--mediated oxidation/nitration in segmental vitiligo is supported by repigmentation of skin and eyelashes after reduction of epidermal H2O2 with topical NB-UVB-activated pseudocatalase PC-KUS. The FASEB Journal, 2013; DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-226779

Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/sKpMQ44myiE/130503132958.htm

champs calvin johnson calvin johnson sound of music Peter Billingsley festivus festivus

Cheick Kongo, Chael Sonen and eyes: Where do they fall on Cagewriter?s Hot or Not list?

A slow week in MMA? So what. Let's decide what's hot, what's not, what is just a big ball of confusion.

Not -- Costa Philippou: Remember how his fight with Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza was listed as one of the best of the month? Too bad it's off. A cut forced Phillippou off in training, and Chris Camozzi is stepping in to fight Souza at UFC on FX 8. Rafael Natal will now fight Joao Zeferino.

Hot -- Jon Jones: He defended his title for the fifth time, tying the record set by Tito Ortiz in 2002. Sure, he jacked up his toe, but he didn't seem to mind.

Not -- Eyes: It's been a tough week for eyes. Eye pokes were the reason behind two of the stoppages at UFC 159. But things are looking up as the UFC will try to change the rules behind eye pokes in the coming months.

Hot -- Chael Sonnen: "But Maggie!" you say. "He lost his fight to Jon Jones. How can he be on the hot list?" Because the loss was completely expected, and the man didn't miss a beat. He stayed in the spotlight by bringing out an old feud with Wanderlei Silva, and ripping him on Twitter.

Not, or maybe hot, or who knows -- Cheick Kongo: After getting knocked out by Roy Nelson, Kongo's profile disappeared from the UFC site. Then, two reputable MMA news outlets reported Kongo's contract has run out, and that the UFC had no plans to re-sign the French fighter. But Kongo keeps insisting on his Twitter page that he has no plans to leave the UFC.

Thanks for sticking with Cagewriter this week. Follow CW on Twitter and Facebook.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/cheick-kongo-chael-sonen-eyes-where-fall-cagewriter-211742960.html

vampire diaries derek jeter Red Bull Stratos Redbull Stratos steve mcnair vice presidential debate Martha Raddatz