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Ambulance, a tractor trailer and three cars. no one including the baby seriously injured. thats a long way down with one false move. this guy climbing 3300 feet up to a boulder wedged in a crevasse in norway, bouncing a golf ball on his club, before smacking it away. quite a shock. here is the story i know youve been waiting for. we heard of diet pills, but what about an exercise pill? researchers say they now have a blueprint of what exercise does to your body, that could one day lead to a ...

Groundbreaking device that helps deliver faster care to patients that have just suffered a stroke. i want you to tell us what this is and how common is it when were talking about stroke victims here. >> very exciting segments today. this is example of one of them. 700,000 americans are being diagnosed with stroke. its basically a piece of blood clot that can go up to the brain, block the flow of the blood to the brain and causes damage of that segment of the brain. its the leading cause of disab...

Authorities say she got behind a former friend and used the lighter to set her hair on fire. another passengers helped to put it out. she is now charged with assault. a lot of stroke victims leave the hospital with no clue as to what caused the event. two marriage studies show that the most common form of stroke is stemming from a common irregular heart boat. with more, dr. debbie, an assistant professor in the nyu school of medicine. i heard the term a trial fib ualation. the heart gets an elec...

It today. this, as investigators searched the area near the college where the younger suspect attended. nbcs katy tur is in boston for us on this saturday. katie, i understand you spoke to some of the runners who finished the race today. i would imagine that the emotions ran high. what did they say? >> reporter: certainly ran very high before we get to that i want to look at the memorial behind me, just as crowded here today, craig, as it was a week and a half ago when they reopened boylston str...

for suzanne malveaux. we are focusing on protests in california, politics and the economy right here at home. straight to it. the mother of baseball hall of famer cal ripken has been found unharmed. ripken seen here with ex-administration, bush administration officials condoleezza rice and karen hughes gained fame as a shortstop with the baltimore orioles. well, the aberdeen police department says that his mother was abducted yesterday after a man with a gun forced her into a car. earl...

he will let you pay a flat 20% or stick with the current tax system. the centers for disease control is recommending boys ages 11 and 12 get vaccinated for the human pap loma virus or hpv. currently girls are vaccinated to cut the risk of their cervical cancer. the cdc says vaccinating boys will help slow hpv, which is spread by sexual contact. libyas new rulers say moammar gadhafi was buried in an unmarked grave today in the desert. his body was on display in a cold storage unit f...

Lot more patient. it made me a lot more compassion national and made me en a lot of people have stories. i wrote this book. i have been wanting to write it for a long time. my wife was beating me over the head and said we have to get this done. i wanted it to inspire people in similar situation, whether its cancer or whatever it is. the doctors saved my life. but you get to a point they say this is the best you can expect after three days. after eight months i was still feeling bad. >> how about...

Whats a reasonable prognosis, or is it really just impossible to know? >> well, to be honest, its impossible to for me to know because i dont know the details of her injury, but we know that she was struck on the left side. and the bullet went from the back to the front. meaning that that left temporal lobe, important for understanding words, took the brunt of the injury. that can make it hard sometimes, because patients cant really understand the commands that the physical therapist is telling ...

Devastating strokes and was to the end, a champion for stroke victims and stroke awareness. well need the sanity break more than usual. lets play "oddball." we begin in the small town in france, the population town is literally doubled to watch men be pigs. no, its not a frat party. it is the annual pig squealing championships in france. five judges mark the performances for the contestants but it wasnt enough to sound like a pig. you needed to get down in the mud and be one. the winner of thi...

For doctors or for nondoctors dressed up as doctors. first we say farewell to two people. gordon williams died over the weekend. brians father. complications from a stroke. the cornerstone in our friends life. our condolences to brian and his entire family. as well as those who loved patricia neal who played everybody from margaret chase smith through only rational person in the planet, on the planet, the one who said the immortal line. in the day the earth stood still. to the woman who discover...