It’s the last month of the year. Let’s see if we can make this the best month of the year.
Are you ready for the latest news? Of course you are!
A man faces two miracles. After getting shot four times while serving in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, doctors said walking and having kids was pretty close to impossible. Well, Mr. Williams didn’t care. He stepped and humped his was to a miracle.
Doctors told the 29-year-old, who was a corporal in the Queen Alexandria’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, that there was only a five per cent chance of him having kids and almost no chance of walking again.
However Mr Williams, from Islands Brow in Merseyside, can walk short distances with a leg brace and his fiancée Sharon Shaw, also 29, is now six months pregnant.
Yay. Congrats and thanks for your service.
Well, this is something you might have heard about. Apparently, we’re close to a cure for HIV:
Efforts to cure HIV in the past have been thwarted by the virus’s ability to lie dormant inside blood cells without being detected. The new therapy combines standard antiretroviral drugs with two new weapons: a drug that reactivates dormant HIV, and a vaccine that induces the immune system to destroy the infected cells.
Fifty patients in the early stages of HIV infection will take part in the trial. The researchers hope that within months, the stores of hidden HIV in these patients – called the HIV reservoir – will be significantly reduced. They expect to know the results in 2017.
Great. I have one comment but, you would think I’m a party pooper. Let’s just be happy!
A man lost both of his arms in an accident. Thanks to a double arm transplant, he’s back to his old…or new…self:
A Mexican man who received a double arm transplant has now begun to feel his hands after losing both his arms from suffering severe electric shock. Gabriel Granados, a 52-year-old father of two, became the first double arm transplant recipient in Latin America in May 2012.
Nice. The arms came from a 34 year old. Turning back the clock or something.
Okay, well, that’s all for today!
-DALANEL
