Govt. launches news portal

The portal has been designed for the Information and Public Relations Department by the CDIT.

With a view to reaching its regional developmental programmes to the public, the government has put in place ‘Keralanews.gov.in,’ a news portal that was switched on by Cultural Affairs Minister K.C. Joseph here on Wednesday.

According to a press note issued here, one information assistant would provide inputs about developments and developmental activity from two block panchayats in the State.

In addition to developmental activities, the portal would showcase arts and cultural activities and technological developments.

News developments of national and international nature would also be included in the portal. Such news would be in English, the press note said.

The news given by the information assistants would be whetted by sub-editors at the regional level under the supervision of district information officers before being uploaded on to the portal. The editorial headquarters of the portal would be in Thiruvananthapuram.

Keralanews would also feature Cabinet decisions, new government orders, tourism-related news, lifestyle stories, sports, reading, press releases, Assembly news, and a photo-gallery.

FOLSOM, California – A husband’s last recourse to save his wife from dying involves turning to online campaign in an attempt to pressure drug companies to give hope to his wife through an experimental cancer treatment. - See more at: http://www.dailynewsportal.net/2014/03/31/video-husband-campaigns-online-save-cancer-stricken-wife/#sthash.r0koYfjA.dpuf

FOLSOM, California – A husband’s last recourse to save his wife from dying involves turning to online campaign in an attempt to pressure drug companies to give hope to his wife through an experimental cancer treatment.

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Indeed, the distraught husband, Keith Knapp, could find no other option except through a number of unapproved treatments so his wife Mikaela Knapp, only 25, may continue to live.
On their Change.org page, he said: “We fully understand the risks with experimental medicine, but we have nothing to lose and much to gain.”
Keith and Miakela Knapp were high school sweethearts who got married in 2011.
Their first bomber was when Mikaela was  told after a checkup a year ago that a lump  found on her rib was a relatively curable non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
However, just last October, she was told the devastating update on her medical issues; she has Stage IV metastatic Xp11 translocation renal cell carcinoma, or in simple terms, a type of kidney cancer that has already spread.
Knapp laments: “Mikaela’s always been my rock. You know she’s in a lot of pain. She’s facing death at the age of 25. She’s just such a fighter,” reported ABC News.
The couple has exhausted all approved treatments, but the cancer persists. After she stopped reacting to treatments, Keith decided to push for compassionate use of one of several new and promising antibody drugs called anti-PD-1 immunotherapies through social media.
The anti-PD-1 immunotherapiesis is still being tested and not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
With his hopes kept high, Keith created a Change.org petition which received more than 200,000 signatures, a blog, a fundraiser, a Facebook group “We Got This” and also a Twitter page.
“We just need someone to say that they’re going to provide us with the drug, and we’re not going to give up until we get that,” said Knapp.
The drugs he is opting for is something  that might “enable the body to attack the cancer by inhibiting a cloaking mechanism that tumors use to disguise themselves from the immune system.”
Mikaela’s situation is similar to Josh Hardy, 7, who survived cancer four times.
Josh is a critically ill first-grader taking an experimental medication made by Durham drug developer Chimerix. He has been recently moved out of intensive care and is improving dramatically, his mother said.
Keith has buoyed hopes that through online campaign, his beloved wife may also be granted their wish, just like Josh who was given an experimental antiviral drug after an online campaign.
Watch their video:
- See more at: http://www.dailynewsportal.net/2014/03/31/video-husband-campaigns-online-save-cancer-stricken-wife/#sthash.r0koYfjA.dpuf

FOLSOM, California – A husband’s last recourse to save his wife from dying involves turning to online campaign in an attempt to pressure drug companies to give hope to his wife through an experimental cancer treatment.

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Indeed, the distraught husband, Keith Knapp, could find no other option except through a number of unapproved treatments so his wife Mikaela Knapp, only 25, may continue to live.
On their Change.org page, he said: “We fully understand the risks with experimental medicine, but we have nothing to lose and much to gain.”
Keith and Miakela Knapp were high school sweethearts who got married in 2011.
Their first bomber was when Mikaela was  told after a checkup a year ago that a lump  found on her rib was a relatively curable non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
However, just last October, she was told the devastating update on her medical issues; she has Stage IV metastatic Xp11 translocation renal cell carcinoma, or in simple terms, a type of kidney cancer that has already spread.
Knapp laments: “Mikaela’s always been my rock. You know she’s in a lot of pain. She’s facing death at the age of 25. She’s just such a fighter,” reported ABC News.
The couple has exhausted all approved treatments, but the cancer persists. After she stopped reacting to treatments, Keith decided to push for compassionate use of one of several new and promising antibody drugs called anti-PD-1 immunotherapies through social media.
The anti-PD-1 immunotherapiesis is still being tested and not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
With his hopes kept high, Keith created a Change.org petition which received more than 200,000 signatures, a blog, a fundraiser, a Facebook group “We Got This” and also a Twitter page.
“We just need someone to say that they’re going to provide us with the drug, and we’re not going to give up until we get that,” said Knapp.
The drugs he is opting for is something  that might “enable the body to attack the cancer by inhibiting a cloaking mechanism that tumors use to disguise themselves from the immune system.”
Mikaela’s situation is similar to Josh Hardy, 7, who survived cancer four times.
Josh is a critically ill first-grader taking an experimental medication made by Durham drug developer Chimerix. He has been recently moved out of intensive care and is improving dramatically, his mother said.
Keith has buoyed hopes that through online campaign, his beloved wife may also be granted their wish, just like Josh who was given an experimental antiviral drug after an online campaign.
Watch their video:
- See more at: http://www.dailynewsportal.net/2014/03/31/video-husband-campaigns-online-save-cancer-stricken-wife/#sthash.r0koYfjA.dpuf