Archive for February 19th, 2007
New home movie footage of JFK in Dallas
A recently discovered home movie shows a brief but clear glimpse of President Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy just seconds before his assassination.
The silent, 8 mm color film is “the clearest, best film of Jackie in the motorcade,” said Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum, which focuses on Kennedy’s life and assassination. [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2007 under History.
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What if science was finding new ways to re-grow fingers?
Lee Spievack holds out the middle finger of his right hand inside a Cincinnati, Ohio, craft store, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2007. Spievack had about a half inch cut off the tip of his right middle finger by a gas powered model airplane propeller. He says the finger grew back to normal with the help of [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2007 under Discoveries / Science.
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What if you needed 84 pints of blood?
Lici and Dave Hoover always knew they wanted three children. First came Jacob and then Julia. In 2004 the couple learned they would be parents again.
August 13, Friday the 13th, Lici went into Labor at a Toledo Hospital. Everything seemed to be going well until a complication required an emergency C-Section.
Baby Andrew was born without [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2007 under Survival.
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What if nature intervened?
Late on a Sunday evening last February, George and Amanda Thomas arrived at the emergency room of Providence Holy Cross Medical Center outside Los Angeles. Amanda, 26 and nearly six months pregnant with her second child, was having trouble breathing. Neither she nor her husband thought it was anything serious.
Just the day before, the Thomases [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2007 under Survival.
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What if your baby developed outside the womb?
Jane Ingram made medical history by giving birth to triplets, two of whom had developed normally but one of whom had developed in her fallopian tube.
Doctors at King’s College Hospital in London said Ms Ingram had almost fully recovered from her “painful and unique ordeal” by Friday night.
“Miracle” baby Ronan, with his sisters Olivia and [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2007 under Survival.
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