Girl stabs best friend 65 times following Facebook dispute
London: In a horrific attack, a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered her best friend by stabbing her in the back 65 times after she was outraged over a Facebook dispute. Erandy Elizabeth Gutierrez was furious after she came to know that her friend Anel Baez had uploaded nude pictures of the duo on the the social networking site.
Gutierrez told Baez, also 16, that she would be lucky to survive until the end of the year, ‘The Metro’ reported. “It may seem that I am very calm, but in my head I have killed you at least three times,” Gutierrez tweeted to Baez. Baez laughed off Gutierrez’s threat and invited her friend to her home in Guamuchil, Mexico to patch things up.
However, Gutierrez stabbed Baez over 60 times with a knife, according to police.
After the murder, Gutierrez tried to clean the blood from her clothes and the weapon, police said. Gutierrez tried to hide her role in the murder after fleeing the scene, the report said. However, she was eventually arrested at her best friend’s funeral. (PTI)
D-printed skull implanted in woman
London: In a world first, surgeons in Netherlands have successfully replaced the complete skull of a 22-year-old woman with a 3D-printed, tailor-made plastic skull. The 23-hour surgery likely saved the woman’s life, who suffers from a condition that thickens the bone structure, particularly that of the skull.
The thickening of the skull put the woman’s brain under increasing pressure. “She slowly lost her vision and started to suffer from motor coordination impairment. It was only a matter of time before other essential brain functions would have been impaired and she would have died,” said brain surgeon Dr Bon Verweij of the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, Netherlands.
“So intensive surgery was inevitable, but until now there was no effective treatment for such patients,” said Verweij who performed the operation together with orthodontic surgeon Dr Marvick Muradin. Before performing the procedure, Verweij gained extensive experience with reconstructions and the 3D printing of partial skull implants. In certain cases, for example when the brain swells up after an accident, often part of the skull is temporarily removed to reduce the pressure on the brain.
The removed part is later reintroduced or replaced by an implant. “We used to create an implant by hand in the operating theater using a kind of cement, but those implants did not have a very good fit,” Verweij said in a statement. “Now we can use 3D printing to ensure that these components are an exact fit. This has major advantages, not only cosmetically but also because patients often have better brain function compared with the old method,” Verweij said.
Together with an Australian company, Anatomics, which specialises in 3D printing, Verweij used the acquired knowledge and experience to replace an entire skull. “It’s now three months after the operation. The patient has fully regained her vision, she has no more complaints, she’s gone back to work and there are almost no traces that she had any surgery at all,” Verweij said. The new technique can also be used for patients with other bone deformities, to reconstruct skull that have been severely damaged in an accident, or due to tumours. (PTI)
8-year-old boy takes internet world by storm
Washington: An 8-year-old boy from Ireland, dubbed Mini-Hercules, has become an online sensation, thanks to his rippling six-pack abs. Brandon Blake received thousands of likes, comments and shares over social media after renowned fitness guru Frank Medrano shared a picture his picture on Facebook, Metro.co.uk reported.
Blake’s dad Mark said that his son who has never lifted weights in his life and his shape has developed over the past year. He has a healthy diet consisting of cereal for breakfast, fruits throughout the day and meat and greenies for dinner, he added.
The youngster built his impressive physique with help of a technique called ‘calisthenics’, a form of work out that uses just the body’s natural resistance through exercises like sit-ups, pull-ups and push-ups. The 8-year-old, who wants to represent his country at the Olympics, prefers to spend his time on his chin-up bar or trampoline instead of playing. (ANI)