European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 19 Morry Audrey Edmunds is 10 years into an 18year sentence for shaking a baby to researchers disagree on shaken baby cause of death by Allen Breed the associated press when 7monthold Natalie beards body arrived in the autopsy there were no outward signs of physical no broken bruises or but behind her pretty Brown eyes and beneath her Fine dark Brown there was both Retinas were puckered and clouded and there was acute bleeding outside and be Neath the brains outer membrane the kind of bleeding most often associated with a burst to forensic these were classic signs that Natalie was shaken to the common Wisdom in such shaken baby cases was that the last person with the child before symptoms appeared was the guilty and a Wisconsin jury convicted baby Sitter Audrey Edmunds of first degree reckless to Edmunds is now 10 years into her 18year prison and Shes seeking a new in the decade since her convict her attorneys Many experts have studied the physics and biomechanics of shake baby syn drome and have concluded that shaking alone could not have produced Natalies injuries without leaving other evidence of among those now questioning the diagnosis is Robert Huntington the forensic pathologist who examined Natalies body and whose testimony helped put Edmunds if the trial were held Huntington told the associated press id say she died of a head and i dont know when it theres room for reasonable some judges in other cases have broadly a Kentucky judge subjected shake baby to a Daubert test a kind of min trial to deter mine the Validity and admissibility of certain circuit judge Lewis Nicholls decided he could not admit expert testimony on a theory whose foundation May amount to merely educated guesses about the cause of surgeons trying to use body natural openings by Malcolm Ritter the associated press Pittsburgh a 4year old boy Lay on an operating table a few weeks ago with a tumor that had eaten into his brain and the base of his Standard surgery would involve cutting open his leaving an ugly scar and hindering his facial growth As he but doctors at the University of Pittsburgh medical Center knew a Way to avoid those devastating they removed much of the tumor through the boys since doctors in new York and in France have announced they removed Gall Blad Ders through the vaginas of two and doctors in India say they have performed appended Tomies through the its a startling concept and a Little unpleasant to but researchers Are exploring new ways to do surgery using slender instruments through tiie body natural avoid ing cutting through the skin and Many questions remain about that but doctors say it holds the Promise of providing a faster recovery with less pain and no visible and in the it can avoid a need for manipulating tissue that could disturb brain and Eye for abdominal going through the Vagina or rectum would avoid the need to Cut through sensitive and deep inside the where tissue Doest feel lasting the procedures themselves might be less some abdominal surgeries like Bowel operations can re quire patients to spend a week or More recovering at with the natural opening the theoretical Hope is that they re ally can go Back to work the next said David Rattner of Massachusetts general Hospi it would be like going to the dentist and getting a Root Rattner its not but it also int sometimes doctors even pass up one natural body opening for on the same Day they treated the doctors in Pittsburgh operated on neck vertebrae of an elderly Man through his this operation would have been done through the but going through the nose meant the patient could Start eat ing right away rather than wait ing a few and he avoided the risks of a feeding tube and a surgical Hole in his Throat to help him said neurosurgeon Amin doctors at the medical Center first reached the spine through the nose just two years he they have even removed brain tutors the size of base natural orifice endoscopic surgery new paths for less invasive surgery researchers Are trying new ways to use the body natural openings for surgery that normally would require cutting the they say entering through the nose and Vagina and eventually the stomach and rectum will provide faster recoveries with less pain and no recent surgery through nose tumor Between brain and Skull is suctioned or taken out in pieces v Bone drilled brain two Scopes can be used one for and one for the camera and Light endoscope controls septum allowing room for instruments eyepiece vaginal approach insertion tube marked to track depth up to 40 inches Long Cable to Monitor and Power instrument Light and camera endoscope passes through a Hole Cut in Pelvic floor of the Vagina behind the cervix York presbyterian cum Olympus University of Pittsburgh medical Center balls through the nibbling at them and withdrawing pieces the size of Popcorn the key to operating through body openings is specialized slender instruments that can be inserted into the natural Chan along with devices that pro vide Light and a video camera Lens at the site of the doctors watch their Progress on video screens As they manipulate the surgical sound familiar its much like laparoscopic which revolutionized the operating room More than 15 years for Many Long incisions have been replaced with three or four each maybe a Quad Ter Inch to a half Inch that has vastly reduced pain and re covery the natural opening approach holds the Promise of going a step beyond that by eliminating the need for those getting rid of them completely is going to be not an evolution Ary but a revolutionary said Marc Bessler of new Yor presbyterian Hospi University medi Cal cervix peritoneal cavity is expanded with Gas to ease travel of scope gallbladder is removed after duct and artery Are dissected and clipped attachments to liver Are then Cut endoscope route a University of Pittsburgh medical Carl uses an endoscope to View a patients brain while Amin Kassam removes a brain tumor through the nose at the University of Pittsburgh medical Center in study says sweets Are rotting kids baby Teeth by Mike Stobbe the associated press Atlanta tooth decay in Young childrens baby Teeth is on the a worrying trend that Sig nals the preschool crowd is eating too much according to the largest government study of the nations dental health in More than 25 the study also noted a drop in the proportion of no elderly adults who have visited a dentist in the past year a possible Indi Cator of declining dental insure but there was some Good news older children have fewer cavi ties and adults have less periodontal disease than in the and More of the elderly Are retaining their we can say that most americans Are noticing an improvement in their Oral said the study Lead Bruce Dye of the National Center for health experts Are concerned about the prevalence of cavities in baby Teeth of children Ages 2 to it in creased to 28 percent in from 24 percent in according to the re tooth decay in Young children had been decreasing for 40 some studies have suggested the trend might have but the new report contains the first statistically significant proof the trend has dental experts one reason is that parents Are giving their children More processed snack foods than in the and More bottled water or other drinks instead of fluoridated tap Dye experts fear shortage of far animal vets Guthrie Iowa Public health experts Are concerned that a shortage of Farman Imal veterinarians in the could Lead to disease potentially endangering human health and threatening the nations food the american veterinary medi Cal a group with about Foo animal Esti mates the shortage at a relatively Small 4 but health officials say even the Small Gap in creases the potential for diseases to go Taco Bell switch to Oil with no trans fat Fried Chicken restaurant Chain pfc announced monday that All of its restaurants have stopped frying Chicken in trans some of rfcs no Fried items still contain trans including pot Macaroni and and some Taco Bell also said its restaurants have switched to an Oil with Zero Grams of trans from the associated press