October 18th, 2009 
joel 
60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl, in the third segment about the Kanzius Machine on CBS’s 60 Minutes, revealed on Sunday that in 2008, the late Erie broadcaster and inventor John Kanzius put his body into his machine and turned it on, attempting to benefit from the potential cancer-killing treatment before formal clinical trials.
Kanzius was quoted in the piece that for a period of a few months he was convinced that his use of the equipment was making a positive difference in his blood count and leukemia condition. He had used the machine without the injection of gold nano particles, an essential element in the current research.
However, research partner Dr. Stephen Curley of M.D. Anderson disputed that Kanzius would have received any positive results from the way he was using the machine. Rather, the fact that he had not been under chemotherapy for five months was probably the real reason for Kanzius’s good physical condition during those months.
Here is Lesley Stahl with her “Notebook” on the piece.
Here is the full Kanzius Machine segment from the Sunday, Oct. 18th program.
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Deep Background for July 5-11, 2009
Deep Background is your open forum to comment on all things Erie and national media. Often it’s about something totally random, which leads me to this question:
Who remembers the Bon Jovi concert in Erie on July 25, 1987? I just saw a repeat interview of Jon Bon Jovi on 60 Minutes tonight, which piqued my curiosity. I wasn’t living in Erie at the time but heard about the Bon Jovi show at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Were you there? Did you work in media at the time and maybe get backstage? Just wondering…
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