Woman with flesh-eating disease off breathing tube
red bottom heelsThe father of a Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating disease says his daughter is now able to breathe on her own, a milestone that sent the family's spirits soaring. Aimee Copeland is now focused on taking each breath without the aid of a ventilator, which will help her lungs recover, her father Andy Copeland said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press.Andy Copeland said her hands were amputated Thursday because they'd turned into purple "poison bags." But he said she's maintained her positive outlook since the amputations. By reading her lips, they heard her mouth the words, "the power of love is undeniable."In his blog Sunday night, her father shared the latest on her condition: "She's cracking jokes, speaking frankly, displaying her usual early morning grumpiness and she has been off of the ventilator for over 10 hours."On Monday, he told NBC's Gabe Gutierrez that his daughter had even joked about braiding her hair -- despite her surgery Thursday.Aimee developed a rare condition, necrotizing fasciitis, after cutting her leg in a May 1 fall from a homemade zip line over a river.Copeland’s not the only one battling the bacterial infection. A 36-year-old new mother, Lana Kuykendall, underwent a series of operations to remove dead or damaged tissue after contracting the condition, just days after giving birth to twins. She remains in critical condition in Greenville, S.C.In addition, a Cartersville, Ga., landscaper, Bobby Vaughn, is recovering from five surgeries where doctors removed almost two pounds of infected tissue near his groin.“I still don't know the extent of this thing; I was told I was close to death,” Vaughn told TODAY Mondayfrom his hospital room. He's being treated at Doctor's Hospital in Augusta -- the same facility where Copeland is recovering.
red sole shoesVaughn was in "good" condition late Sunday, said Barclay Bishop, a hospital spokesperson. Experts estimate there are several hundred cases in the U.S. each year, with about 1 in 4 being fatal. A federal administrative judge ruled that pomegranate juice maker Pom Wonderful used deceptive advertising when it implied its products could treat or prevent serious diseases and other medical conditions.Judge D. Michael Chappell upheld much of a 2010 Federal Trade Commission complaint against the Los Angeles company owned by Lynda and Stewart Resnick.The judge said in his decision issued Monday that Pom used "insufficient" evidence to back its claims that Pom products "treat, prevent or reduce the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer or erectile dysfunction."The judge did not find all Pom ads in the original complaint to be at fault. But one cited as deceptive described Pom juice as an "antioxidant superpower," and went on to say that antioxidants guard against agents that "can cause heart disease, premature aging, Alzheimer's disease, even cancer." Chappell, the chief administrative law judge at the FTC, ordered Pom to discontinue making "any representation" that a product "is effective in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of any disease."Violations of the order could be subject to a fine of $16,000 per incident.The 335-page ruling did not agree with the entire, original FTC complaint. The judge said the complaint went too far in requiring Pom to get pre-approval from the Food and Drug Administration for any claims made in future advertisements. He ruled that pre-approval "would constitute unnecessary overreaching."Also, the judge did not find all Pom ads challenged by the FTC to be deceptive. David C. Vladeck, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, issued a short statement saying that he was "pleased" the judge agreed deceptive advertising had been used.
red bottom shoesPom issued a statement Monday focusing on the parts of the original complaint that were discarded. It said the ruling allows the company to "share the scientific evidence that highlights the value and power inherent in pomegranates and pomegranate juice with impunity."The judge's decision goes into effect in 30 days unless Pom formally challenges it. "We do plan to appeal certain aspects of the ruling," Pom spokesman Corey Martin said.The appeal would be heard by the five-member FTC. If an appeal is not successful, Pom could take the matter to a federal appeals courtHigher prices charged by hospitals, outpatient centers and other providers drove up health care spending at double the rate of inflation during the economic downturn– even as patients consumed less medical care overall, according to a new study. Prices rose at least five times faster than overall inflation for emergency room visits, outpatient surgery and facility-based mental health and substance abuse care from 2009 to 2010, says the report by the Health Care Cost Institute, a nonpartisan research group funded by insurers. Prices declined in only one category: nursing home care, which saw a 3.2 percent drop in the cost per admission. One of the areas with the fastest growing spending, meanwhile, was children's medical care."The story really does seem to be prices," said Martin Gaynor, chair of the institute's governing board and a health care economist at Carnegie Mellon University.Representing one of the broadest looks at actual claim payments made by insurers, the study's findings raise questions that go to the heart of the nation's $2.6 trillion annual bill for health care: Why are prices for medical services rising far faster than inflation? Is a rapid increase in spending on children an anomaly, or a long-term trend with major implications for future costs?"If you don't know what the cause is, you don't know what the right policy lever is (for a solution),"
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