described a patient with a syndrome of increased muscle irritability, who presented ondulating muscle rolling movements and electrically silent cramps, myoedema and muscle reactions to mechanical stimulation similar to myotonic response, suggesting a disfunction at myofibrillar level.
Yvonne Craig, the actor known as the original Batgirl for her role in the 1960s TV series Batman has died, aged 78. According to a statement on her website, Craig died from complications from breast cancer that had metastasized to her liver. She had undergone chemotherapy treatment for two years.
Created at the request of the Batman TV show producers, a new Batgirl made her debut in Detective Comics #359 in 1967. She was revealed as the teenage daughter of Gotham Cityâs police commissioner James Gordon, who never knew that Barbara snuck out every night to fight crime.