| The CNN Wire: Wednesday, Oct. 10
He was receiving follow-up treatment in a hospital emergency department, was in stable condition and could be released Wednesday night or Thursday. Also injured were a 17-year-old male, Darnell Rodgers, who was treated and released after being shot in the elbow; a 15-year-old male shot in the left side, who may be released from a hospital Wednesday night; and a 15-year-old female who suffered a knee injury, and likely will be released Wednesday night, Eckart said. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said earlier the teenage female hurt her knee in the chaos following the shootings. (Posted 9:02 p.m.) Former mayor who dropped out of sight was in rehab, lawyer says (CNN) -- Former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy, who resigned Wednesday after mysteriously dropping out of sight for two weeks, had checked into an inpatient rehabilitation facility to receive treatment for a dependence on prescription drugs, his attorney said.
Hope for new cancer therapies
The team is absolutely on the mark with this work. It's enormously promising,'' said Erik Thompson, a breast cancer scientist with St Vincent's Institute and the University of Melbourne. That's so, he said, as the group - led by Joan Massague, head of the cancer biology and genetics program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York - have revealed key steps breast cancer cells take when they spread to the lungs and bone in a process called metastasis. "Metastasis is what's killing people with cancer,'' said Associate Professor Thompson. "The pathways which allow tumour cells to spread through the body and stay there, resistant to chemotheraphy, are exactly the pathways we have to understand and conquer,'' claimed Professor Thompson. Melbourne-based oncologist and breast cancer scientist Geoff Lindeman agreed, but cautioned that the findings must be proven in clinical trials.
Holiday stress can lead to depression
While most people are singing carols and wrapping gifts during the holidays, those who struggle with mental illness often feel increased pain and isolation. Terese Gessler knows, because she's been there. "The bigness of it, how it comes across as being a very extreme holiday," said Gessler, 38, who was diagnosed with major depression and anxiety at age 14. "The stresses that go with it shopping, parties, family gatherings." Although statistics show that suicides in Sheboygan County aren't higher than at other times of the year, mental health professionals and law enforcement officers in Sheboygan see the result of the increased stress and pressure Christmas can bring. "This can be a very lonely, depressing time for people," said Beverly Randall of Mental Health America in Sheboygan County.
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