'Scrapper' won't let cerebral palsy keep him off the field
Standard-Examiner Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:24 PM PDT
SOUTH OGDEN -- At 9-months-old, Parks "Scrapper" Birt was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The disorder makes movement on the left side of his body difficult, but he refuses to let it slow him down. Last Monday, Scrapper (a nickname that stuck after his father Larry jokingly referred to Parks' left arm as scrap metal) and his South Weber little league team saw their playoff bid come to a 5-1 end ... |
DiTrani: Farewell to the only job I have ever known
The Record Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:15 PM PDT
Like Bill Parcells â€" who after Friday I can unabashedly call a friend â€" says, “God takes it away from you.†Oh, He hasn’t taken away my love for sports, football in particular. Yet the travel and daily grind has become too much for my 66-year-old non-sculpted body and mind. |
Vaccine shows promise in reversing Type 1 diabetes
Seattle Times Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:09 PM PDT
The new findings hint that even in patients with long-standing diabetes, the body retains the potential to restore pancreas function if clinicians can only block the parts of the immune system that are killing the beta cells. |
Remains found at Indy hospital construction site
22 WSBT South Bend Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:47 PM PDT
Police have now clarified that remains were found at the construction site. They said the remains could be from an animal or a human. Fox59 received report of a body found at a construction site near Methodist Hospital early Friday afternoon. The report said the body was found at the construction site for the Methodist Neurological Center on 21st Street. |
Hall of inedibility
The Star Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:26 PM PDT
ALL food contaminants have the potential of causing harm to the human body, but not all of them have caused large scale food poisonings and outbreaks that have sickened and killed many. Here is a list of some of those that did. |
Gay out of world showdown with Bolt after hip injury
Independent Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:06 PM PDT
On his flying visit to Manchester last month, Tyson Gay did say that his biggest rival was not Usain Bolt but his own body. The second fastest man on the planet arrived in the north-west of England for the Great City Games street races complaining of a hip and adductor problem. Now, the American's hopes of regaining the world 100 metres and 200m titles in Daegu, South Korea in August have been ... |
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