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Toronto Star
| 1 year ago
Aimee Copeland, 24, is fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection. AP A third case of the flesh-eating disease has cropped up in the southeastern United States as the University of West Georgia psychology student Aimee Copeland continues...
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The Journal Gazette
| 1 year ago
Healthy men shouldn't get routine prostate cancer screenings, says updated advice from a government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good...Preventive Services Task Force is sticking by a contentious proposal it made last fall.
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Atlanta Journal-Constution
| 1 year ago
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Cartersville man is facing his sixth surgery Tuesday after contracting the same flesh-decaying bacterial infection as Aimee Copeland. Bobby Vaughn, 33, is the third person whose infection has come to light in recent...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Story continues below "Right now, we're just taking each moment and treasuring it for what it's worth...Her hands were amputated on Thursday because they'd turned purple and were threatening her recovery. "It's almost like she had poison bags on the...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
The victim, Bobby Vaughn, told the news organization that his symptoms started off innocently enough. "I just started feeling very sick," Vaughn, 33, told the station during a telephone interview. "I was throwing up and had a backache...Vaughn said...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
A South Carolina woman who gave birth to twins and then became ravaged by a flesh-eating bacteria has undergone seven surgeries and is clinging to life, her brother said Sunday. Lana Kuykendall , 36, has been kept intubated and sedated at Greenville...
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Atlanta Journal-Constution
| 1 year ago
Copeland is now focused on taking each breath without the aid of a ventilator, which will help her lungs recover, her father, Andy Copeland, told The Associated Press Monday. "Aimee is being Aimee. She's cracking jokes, speaking frankly, displaying...
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The Orange County Register
| 1 year ago
The father of a young Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacteria says his daughter is now breathing on her own. Aimee Copeland was taken off of a ventilator for several hours, representing the latest milestone in her recovery, said her father,...
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CNN Blog
| 1 year ago
Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia woman who lost both hands and feet to a bacterial infection, is now breathing on her own, her father said. "Aimee is being Aimee. She's cracking jokes, speaking frankly, displaying her usual early morning...
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Atlanta Journal-Constution
| 1 year ago
But those caught up in the Snellville woman's struggle can still follow it via an elaborate running account on a Facebook page maintained by her father, Andy Copeland...The University of West Georgia student, who lost her left leg after a zip-lining...
