Has anyone else seen this news from Brisbane Unbelievable. The couple involved have other (hungry) children, now being cared for by their Grandmother. They are not a young couple. What ever they were into....I can't see how they wouldn't have noticed their children were wasting away or even dead!!!!!!!
Dead twins' parents to seek bail
June 19, 2008 01:32am THE parents of 18-month-old twins found dead after allegedly starving to death could get bail today after it was revealed autopsy results may take weeks. The results are expected to determine whether police will upgrade charges of failing to provide the necessities of life to manslaughter or murder. But police have said the delicate examination of the twins' tiny bodies, which weighedonly 3.6kg and 4kg when they died, would not be completed before today's hearing and could take weeks. Police allege the twins died of malnourishment. They had been dead in their cots for more than a week and their bodies had started to decompose. A relative of the family alerted police who found the bodies about 7pm on Monday.
Thanks Suzi...I am only catching up with the news today. Didn't think that story would have gone un noticed...I agree with your statement, Some people should NOT breed
Robyn Ironside and Glenis Green June 19, 2008 01:02pm
UPDATE: HERVEY Bay detectives are looking at the possibility a body found at Kempsey in central New South Wales is that of missing pet-groomer Lisa Keem.
The 33-year-old was last seen on Saturday afternoon at Pialba after leaving her Foxy Furs salon and doing some shopping.
Police in Hervey Bay have set up a major incident room with local detectives and those from Brisbane's homicide squad, to investigate Ms Keem's disappearance.
A bushwalker in the Maria River State Forest found a woman's body on Sunday.
The body had extensive burns but an autopsy indicated the woman was approximately 30 years old, 162cm tall, with fair skin and hair, and slim to medium build.
Police believe the body had been at the site for less than three days.
Ms Keem is 33, 165cm tall and slim with fair skin and light brown hair.
She moved to Hervey Bay two years ago, after separating from her husband who lives in Sydney.
Ms Keem was last with family in Melbourne for the funeral of her grandmother, who died on May 23, and Ms Foster said her eldest daughter had wanted to fly down to visit last weekend (when she went missing) for a get-together.
A former high-flyer in the corporate world as a communications manager in a legal firm, Ms Keem moved to the Bay to start a new life a couple of years ago with her now ex-husband Richard Giardina.
Friends said she had only been married briefly after falling for Mr Giardina, who had arrived in Australia after serving time in a German jail for drug-related offences. - with AAP
My first thoughts yesterday when I read this story was… the ex husband did it. Now as I learn more I still think he did it or his lifestyle and past is the reason his ex wife is now dead.
From comms manager to 'pet groomer', then you throw in the husbands record. Somethin's just not right their
I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Cloned cells kill skin cancer Article from: Agence France-Presse Correspondents in Washington June 19, 2008 11:42am
DOCTORS have, for the first time, successfully treated a skin cancer patient with cells cloned from his own immune system, according to a new study.
The ground-breaking treatment for advanced melanoma, or skin cancer, led to a long remission for the patient and used his own cloned infection-fighting T-cells, said doctor Cassian Yee, the lead author of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr Yee and his associates from the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle removed CD4+ T-cells, a type of white blood cell, from a 52-year-old man whose melanoma had spread to a groin lymph node and to one of his lungs.
The melanoma was already well advanced and in stage four.
The T-cells which specifically fight melanoma were modified and expanded in the laboratory and some five billion cells were then infused into the patient, who received no other kind of treatment.
Two months later no tumours were found during scans of the patient's organs. And he had been cancer-free for two years, Dr Yee said.
"We were surprised by the anti-tumour effect of these CD4 T cells and its duration of response,'' Dr Yee said.
"For this patient we were successful, but we would need to confirm the effectiveness of therapy in a larger study.''
It was the first ever case to show that cloned cells from a patient's own immune system could successful combat skin cancer. If further tests confirmed the efficiency of the method, it could be used in some 25 per cent of patients with late-stage skin cancer, the study said.
Using a patient's own immune system to combat cancer, called immunotherapy, is a growing area of research that aims to develop less-toxic cancer treatments than standard chemotherapy and radiation.
Some 160,000 cases of melanoma are diagnosed around the world every year, particularly affecting white men living in very sunny regions.
Although it usually affects the skin, in rare cases it can also infect the eyes and intestines.
According to the World Health Organisation, some 48,000 people die from melanoma every year.
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Gee, I hated how the media call Aussies are "fatties". I was reading this article on A nation of fatties (see here: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23893369-2,00.html). You don't have to be Albert Einstein to know this research. I have heard now and then, about these surveys, that there is an obesity epidemic.
Myself I am overweight and it hurts me, that every time my weight gets mentioned I get deep down depressed. I want to do something about it.
Anyway I am not the only one that is overweight !!
As we saw this year on Australia’s Biggest Loser that even a 45 year old man with a heart problem can lose piles of weight JUST by walking and watching his diet. You don’t have to be a nuclear physicist (or Steven Hawking) to figure that one out. All I have to do is buy a filtered water bottle and some good walking shoes and I’m off on a walk every fine day. I bought my small backpack recently that will hold my water bottle (or 2) my phone, my keys and maybe $10. in case I breakdown like an old horse and need a taxi I have heel spurs like one of the BL contestants and believe me that is not a picnic. I am going to get inserts for the shoes to protect my heels even more. So, BM, get motivated down in the southern highlands and take a crisp morning walk!
I totally agree with you Paula but in the case of John from the Sunshine Coast he walked, and walked, and walked, miles every day. He watched what he ate and… walked. He was not in the running for the money and didn’t participate in the extreme exercise and contests. My point is just walking for 20-30 minutes every day will set you on the correct path of weight loss. It does get harder as we get older.
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