California man tries to repair hernia with butter knife
Glendale, CA, United States (AHN) – A 63-year old California man was recuperating in the hospital Tuesday after he tried to repair his hernia using a butter knife.
The man attempted the operation on his stomach using a 6-inch butter knife, to the alarm of his watching wife, who quickly called police. She told police her husband was tired of waiting to get the surgery and took matters in his own hands.
When Glendale police arrived, they found the man lying on a lawn chair with the knife protruding from his abdomen. The man was cool as butter and cooperated with the officers.
The man, whose name was not released, was transported to the Los Angeles County USC Medical Center where he is getting the care he needs.
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Former Rep. Mark Foley recovering from cancer surgery in Florida
Orlando, FL, United States (AHN) – Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley is recovering from an operation to remove cancer cells in his prostate.
The 56-year-old lawmaker successfully underwent surgery late Friday in an Orlando hospital. He was diagnosed several weeks ago after skipping his annual check-up.
A former Lake Worth vice mayor and state lawmaker before being elected to Congress in 1994, Foley was said to have been considering running for mayor of West Palm Beach last year. He stepped down in 2006 from his congressional seat, at the time chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, a day after a report accused him of sending sexually explicit messages to a male House page.
The report said the congressman sent the text messages in 2004 but other House pages later came forward and accused him of inappropriate conduct as far back as his first year in office.
Upon his resignation, the six-term congressman checked into a rehabilitation facility and revealed that he is gay. He returned to the public stage in 2009 as host of a political radio talk show in North Palm Beach.
Foley was not sanctioned by the House Ethics Committee, nor was then-House Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, who had known about Foley’s history with male pages and had faced calls to resign.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also did not charge the former congressman in connection with the allegations after a “thorough and comprehensive investigation.”
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Swedish doctors implant world’s first lab-grown synthetic windpipe on cancer patient
Stockholm, Sweden (AHN) – Doctors in Sweden successfully performed the world’s first transplant of a laboratory-grown synthetic windpipe on a cancer patient. The recipient is Andermariam Teklesenbet Beyene, a 36-year old man from Eritrea, who was diagnosed in 2008 with late-stage tracheal cancer and given one month to live.
The surgical procedure was done on June 9 at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. The medical team was led by an Italian surgeon, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a professor of regenerative medicine at the university.
The windpipe placed in the patient was created in Harvard Bioscience, a laboratory in London, which used the man’s own stem cells. Since the procedure did not involved human donor tissue, there was no rejection by the body of the implant.
The London lab scientists created a trachea, the tube-like airway that connects the voice box and branches into both lungs. .
Tracheal cancer, the man’s ailment, is extremely rare. It accounts for less than 1 percent of all types of cancer.
Beyene, who is studying in Iceland, initially tried different treatments available to cure his cancer, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. The tumor then almost blocked his windpipe.
In 2008, Marchiarini implanted an artificial trachea made from donor tissue combined with stem cells on a female patient, whose windpipe was damaged by tubercolosis. It takes a laboratory only about 10 to 12 days to create a synthetic structure for the trachea, but several months of waiting would be needed for an organ donor, the surgeon said.
Macchiarini said he would next use the same technology to treat a nine-year old child in Korea born with a malformed windpipe. He had performed at least 10 tracheal implants.
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