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Navy s. E. A. L. First spoke to 60 minutes Bill Whitaker in annapolis, maryland earlier this year. He now tells us the new gbs study is proof of what hes seen with his own eyes over the past ten years. I think its going to help a loft people reduce their suffering and the suffering to their families as well. Reporter in the new study, active duty military members with ptsd were given two injections two weeks apart, some with sgb, and others with a placebo. Their symptoms were monitored for eight weeks. Those who got the sbg injections saw twice as much improvement. How do patients describe the effects of the treatment to you . Usually the is some form of i feel relaxed and calm in a way i havent for years. Reporter the sgb procedure works like this. A generally harmless anesthetic is injected deep into the neck, affecting a set of nerves. Those nerves help control the fight other flight reactions, often amplified in ptsd patients, which can cause them to have trouble sleeping or easily become irritate and angry. The sgb anesthetic appears to block those impulses between the brain and the body. A handful of veterans hospitals across the country already use sgb. Its also given on a limited basis to civilian, including first responders, survivors of childhood trauma, and assault victims. This entire time there is a very, very fine gauze that you were looking through, and it really diminished your experience of ter ts woman, asked us not to use her name, says she spent 35 years reliving a brutal Sexual Assault by ain report over the summer, she sought out a doctor in chicago who was providing sgb treatment. She says it changed her life. I started grinning, and i couldnt quit. And i said this stuff works. Reporter her dr. , eugene lepov has treated sgb therapy for more than a dozen years. You take the fight and flight and turn it on, it stays on. This takes the switch and turns it off. Reporter sgb has been used for decades to treat conditions such as hot flashes, migraines and other pain, but many ptsd patients still need intensive psychiatric therapy, and no one is calling it a magic bullet. It gives you an opportunity to change your life. And the more you work with it, the more successful you will be. Reporter dr. Mulvaney told us he is proud to have made a difference as a veteran and as a healer. What does it mean to you as a retired navy s. E. A. L. . I helped a lot of my s. E. A. L. Brothers, hundreds of them. Buff its not as parochial as that. Im just as glad to be able to help marines or firefighters or people that were abused as children. Sgb is expected to help many people and their families who suffer from the ripple effects of ptsd. The next study is still awaiting larger and last for one year with a longer followup plan. Pn run you upwards of 1500. 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Its got to be tide. Bestselling author mitch albom has sold millions of books. You may even have read a few of them, but he is also a family man, caring for 47 kids. Nancy giles has the story. [ bell ]. Line up, line up reporter the first day of school at the have Faith Haiti Mission in portauprince. New backpacks. Are you going to take care of it all year . Yes. Reporter new school uniforms. New teachers. Are you ready for school . Yes reporter and at the center of it all, mitch albom. Yep, that mitch albom, the guy who wrote tuesdays with morry and lots of other best sell. Oh, youre backpack is so big, we can put you inside it. Reporter straightening backpacks, giving pep talk, and doing whatever needs doing to get the school year off to a good start. So ten years ago when you first came to haiti, did you plan to run an orphanage . So you start with the funny questions. Reporter hey, you know. We sat down with mitch and his wife janine in late august. I donve hai was on a map. I was moved by what happened in the earthquake. Reporter its been almost ten years since that terrible earthquake devastated haiti, killing over 100,000 people and leaving millions more injured and homeless. Like so many others, mitch albom wanted to help. And we landed just a few weeks after the earthquake. We saw people missing arms and legs Walking Around and covered in white dust. And then here was this little oasis where there were these kids. Reporter kids huddled in an orphanage. I saw kids sleeping on the ground here. I didnt even know if they had parents, makeshift foam mattress, not eating anything. Reporter he flew home to detroit, but i couldnt leave it alone. I couldnt get it out of my head. There were no toilets, really. There was no shower there was no real kitchen to speak of. So i said well, i live in detroit. We do things with our hands in detroit, and i put a call out. Reporter 23 people answered the call. They call themselves the detroit muscle crew. Reporter love it. Little muscle tshirts. We built the first real toilets, shower, kitchen, dining area. Get under the water. I was here for the first shower. Ill never forget that. They didnt know what it was. I said are you ready . Yeah, yeah. I turned the water on and the water came down. It was like witnessing the lords first rainstorm. They went nuts with glee and water. And then they started doing this dance, singing and dancing, pushing off the walls. Reporter now the children of the mission have daily classes in english and french. Amazing grace reporter they study music and science and math. Whats your favorite part of school . Science. Reporter science i love that. They have regular medical checkups, three healthy meals a day, and a lot of big dreams. What do you want to be when you grow up . I want to be a doctor and a writer. A surgeon. I want to be a lawyer. I want to study business. I want to be a businessman. I want to be a veterinarian. Reporter really . I love animals. And i want to be a chinese translator. Reporter when jane pauley visited with mitch albom five years ago in detroit, he was spending four days every month with his kids in haiti. He still does. But something has changed since then. A little girl named chica arrived. Was she special from the very beginning . Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Chica. She had a spark. Most of the kids are shy and theyll lower their eyes and everything. Chica just sat back and checked him out. It was like i went and she went. And i laughed. And then she laughed. And i said well, i met my match. Reporter but when chica was 5, the director noticed something was wrong. Her eye drooped. They found the one mri scanner in all of haiti and got this report. The child has a mass on her brain. We dont know what it is, but whatever it is, there is nobody in haiti who can help her. And that was basically our clarion call to say shes going to have to come to america. Reporter and that changed everything for you . It changed everything. Count on me, on one, two, three reporter mitch and janine took little chica io their me and into their hearts. All of the sudden it there was chica, and she was there. Reporter for two years together, they battled dipg, a rare pediatric brain tumor, and they laughed and danced and sang and became a family. I am a child of god and it was glorious blessing. And she wasnt the perfect child, but she was perfect for us. Right. She really was. Capturing you forever. Reporter a journey mitch albom has written about in his new book, finding chica. Families are like pieces of art. You can make them from almost anything, any kind of material. And sometimes they look like you and sometimes they dont. Sometimes they come from your dna and sometimes they dont. And the only ingredient you need to make a family is love. Unconditional love. Reporter chika died at age 7, but her story continues. The proceeds from mitch alboms book will build a new earthquakeproof school for all their other children. Janine and i didnt have kids, and suddenly we have 47 kids. Probably somewhere in between 0 and 47 is the average and normal desired size, but thats okay. I like having 47 kids. Reporter mitch and janines two oldest kids, mano and sam are now sophomores at mcdonough university. Is it named after madonna the singer . No, not at all. Reporter its in detroit, where mitch can still give them pep talks. Every single time he came he always talked about college, and this pushed me. Okay, okay, maybe i can do it, really. Reporter manos dream is to become a doctor. I want to good back to haiti and see kids on the street, living on the floor. This breaks ves me strength to go harder and doan what i can here. Reporter did mitch and janine change because of their relationship with chika and their relationship with you guys at the orphanage . Yeah. Reporter tell me about it. They like to show us love. Love is all that i can give to you reporter at the close of every day, mitch alboms kids remember chika by singing her favorite song. Every day we sing this song, just to remember her and to keep her here in our lives. She has taught a lot of kids here what they need to do with their lives and how precious life is. She taught me when i had to carry her from place to place towards the end of her life, we were sitting and coloring. I looked at my watch and jumped up. I said chika, i have to go. She said no, stay and color. I said chika, i have to work. This is my job. She crossed her arms, the way she always did and said no it isnt. Your job is carrying me. A ride in the back of an ambulance can be a terrifying experience for anyone, especially a young kid. Jamie yuccas found one paramedic who discovered the magic that puts them at ease. [ siren ] reporter when an emergency call comes in head to a crash. Reporter paramedic ivan rolls out, ready to make lifesaving decisions. He is passionate about his profession, but still finds time for a little slight of hand. Ivans tricks are a regular part of the job on calls where kids are involved in order to help them stay calm. What does magic do for a child . It breaks the ice. It takes down their wall. Their association of an ambulance is blood and needles that can literally turn kids worst day into one of the best days. Reporter in the last five years hes responded to more than 4,000 emergencies. Still, ivan remembers the worst call of his career. He was screaming for his dad over and over again, and this kid was just absolute fear. I watched a 5yearold boy go from screaming for his father to lifeless. For the first time in my career, i actually felt powerless. Reporter that tragedy drove him to search for a way to Better Connect with kids. My name is ivan, okay . Reporter thats when he realized his boyhood love for magic just might hold the key. So he stopped at the eagle magic store, the oldest shop in the country, and signed up for lessons. Is there anything we shouldnt be looking at . If i gave away all the secrets, i would let money burn away. Reporter now he works magic in the back of his ambulance. I was saying i had one and you had one. But in reality i had how many . Zero. And you had how many . Two, what, three. So i learned a couple of tricks and i was terrible at ito be good at it. I just had to be good enough for that kid, that one kid. Reporter of course, some kids are too critical for card tricks. But after he delivers a patient safely to the e. R. , hell still take the time to distract a child from the scary task at hand. One time i doing magic tricks in the e. R. , and i was doing it while they were starting anni v on the kid. The kid still definitely felt the iv, but he was still interested in what i was doing more. Lift up your arms. Reporter and until his next call,he amateur magician will continue to make the fearhe fea disappear. Is it over here . No. Its actually right here. All i want to do is be good at my job. And if it means me finding another way to get be a better paramedic, which is doing magic tricks for kids, by all means im going to do it. Reporter surprising kids to soothe their souls. Jamie yuccas, minnea lis, miesota. And thats the overnight news for this friday from the

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