| High-tech medicine, egg donor made this couple parents
Paul Nozell had few doubts as he sat in front of an ultrasound screen watching as two eggs - no bigger than pinheads - were implanted in his wife's uterus. "Those were the best eggs you could get," he said. "Those two eggs were just perfect." He was right. On Nov. 27, Garrett and Laura Nozell were born. Marianne Nozell was 45 when she gave birth to the twins. She and her husband joined the estimated 15 percent of U.S. couples who undergo fertility treatments each year. Since the first "test tube baby" was born in 1978, assisted reproduction has become a big business. In 2006, it led to more than 50,000 births worldwide. While Hollywood celebrities have made late-in-life motherhood fashionable, what is rarely publicized is that a woman's odds of getting pregnant with her own eggs after 40 are less than 1 percent, said Dr.
Time trials open track season
With a little help from Mother Nature, the area prep track and field season might just get its first competition of the season in this afternoon.The annual Butte High Time Trials are set to begin at 3:15 p.m. at Charlie Merrifield Track at Bulldog Memorial Stadium on the campus of East Middle School. Along with host Butte High, Butte Central, Dillon and possibly Boulder are expected to compete.The Butte High boys are coming off a very good season in which they took second at the state meet last May. However, the Bulldogs will be without the services of all-around star Tony Cunneen, who scored the lion's share of points for the 'Dogs at state.Actually, Butte High has only two athletes back who placed at divisionals, and only one who scored a point at state � Dylan Grady, who took sixth in the long jump last May."As of right now, I have no idea who is running what," said longtime Butte High track coach Charlie Merrifield.
Tejano star has more brain surgery
HOUSTON -- Doctors worried about the condition of entertainer Emilio Navaira, gravely injured in the crash of his tour bus early Easter morning, said Wednesday they returned the Grammy-winning Tejano singer to surgery to relieve growing pressure on his brain. Navaira, 45, known to his fans simply as Emilio, underwent another nearly two-hour operation Tuesday evening, his second such operation in two days. "The pressures in his brain started to creep up a little bit, never became critical, but during the course of the day they seemed to be responding less and less well to some of the medicines we were giving," said Dr. Alex Valadka, director of neurotrauma services at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and vice chair of neurosciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Study Outlines Risk Of Treatment-Resistant Infection Following Facelift Surgery
About one-half percent of patients undergoing facelift surgery at one outpatient surgical center between 2001 and 2007 developed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, according to a report in the March/April issue oArchives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
MRSA is now a leading cause of infections at surgical sites and in skin and soft tissues, according to background information in the article. It is much more virulent than other forms of staph infection, spreads through tissue more rapidly, is more difficult to control and causes infections that are more expensive to treat and are associated with higher death rates.
Richard A. Zoumalan, M.D., of Lennox Hill-Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital and New York University School of Medicine, New York, and David B.
Hot Box, TV worth talking about
Point of No "Return": Can't say we didn't see this one coming. After only three atrocious, appropriately audience-ignored episodes, the new Amy Sherman-Palladino sitcom, The Return of Jezebel James, has been summarily axed by Fox. As of Friday, both it and 'Til Death will be replaced by Bones reruns as the lead-in for Canterbury's Law, which, as previously reported, has moved to Fridays, with reruns of House filling its old Monday slot. Wait a sec. All these reruns ... the strike is still over, right? The Marrying Kind: And speaking of inevitable ... B.C.-born Pamela Anderson Lee Rock Salomon wishes to announce the annulment of her marriage to poker player Rick Salomon – the third for both, he having been previously hitched to Elizabeth Daily and Shannen Doherty, she even more famously once (or twice) wed to rocker Tommy Lee, and then, for all of six months, to Kid Rock.
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