The event I am going to cover for my first multimedia story is the Haunted House that will be taking place in the Newman Center across from Stephens Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 29. This Haunted House is four floors of a murder mystery.
Potential sources for my story include other people walking through the haunted house, the tour guide and the person who set the whole thing up. Some questions I could ask would be about how long it took to set up, is there a cost and where does the money go?
There would be a lot of photo opportunities while walking through the Haunted House. I could take pictures while walking through and this would strongly depict the story I will write.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Hopkin's doctor gives hope
Four women diagnosed with terminal breast cancer are searching for a cure, and a Johns Hopkins oncologist may be able to give them what they've been waiting so long for.
Annie Siple is a 43-year-old woman who was first diagnosed with breast cancer and within a year spread to her liver. Although she hasn't been suffering, her condition is terminal. Siple is part of a small clinical trial for women with Stage IV breast cancer. Dr. Leisha Emens, an oncologist at Hopkins believes this experiment could "lay the groundwork for a vaccine to prevent brea
st cancer."
Emens experiement involves training the immune system to attack cancer cells. There are 40,000 American women that die of breast cancer each year. Emens' study involves many injections, blood tests, and of course the uncertainty that it may not work. Even if the odds are against this experimental vaccine, it may give women the chance for a longer life.
When the vaccine Emens created was tested on mice it cured some, but there is no definite way to know whether or not it will work on humans. Emens first study began in 2004, and she is still enrolling more women in the program.
Siple is just one of Emens' terminally ill patients, and she has been patiently waiting for three months to find out if the vaccine is working.
Emens says, "The news isn't perfect, but it's not terrible."
The tumors in Siple's liver have grown, but no new ones had been formed. As Siple continues to wait for positive results, others also hope for a cure for the disease that kills so many loved ones.
Annie Siple is a 43-year-old woman who was first diagnosed with breast cancer and within a year spread to her liver. Although she hasn't been suffering, her condition is terminal. Siple is part of a small clinical trial for women with Stage IV breast cancer. Dr. Leisha Emens, an oncologist at Hopkins believes this experiment could "lay the groundwork for a vaccine to prevent brea
st cancer."Emens experiement involves training the immune system to attack cancer cells. There are 40,000 American women that die of breast cancer each year. Emens' study involves many injections, blood tests, and of course the uncertainty that it may not work. Even if the odds are against this experimental vaccine, it may give women the chance for a longer life.
When the vaccine Emens created was tested on mice it cured some, but there is no definite way to know whether or not it will work on humans. Emens first study began in 2004, and she is still enrolling more women in the program.
Siple is just one of Emens' terminally ill patients, and she has been patiently waiting for three months to find out if the vaccine is working.
Emens says, "The news isn't perfect, but it's not terrible."
The tumors in Siple's liver have grown, but no new ones had been formed. As Siple continues to wait for positive results, others also hope for a cure for the disease that kills so many loved ones.
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