A heart surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center unwittingly infected five patients during valve replacement surgeries earlier...
Dec
08
Surgeon infected patients during heart procedure, Cedars-Sinai admits
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15 Agonizing Automotive Atrocities
Label: Technology Yugo.There, we got it out of the way. When you read the headline, of course an image of a tiny Cold War-era hatchback popped into your head. We bet you also shuddered at the thought of a Pontiac Aztek.We love to poke fun at failure, and no failure made a punchline better than the Yugo. We found that out while talking with Jason Vuic, author of The Yugo: The Rise and...
Reinhold Weege, creator of “Night Court,” dies at 63
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Reinhold Weege, the creator of the hit NBC sitcom “Night Court,” has died, a spokeswoman for the family told TheWrap. He was 63 years old.He also wrote for other notable television shows, including “Barney Miller” and “M*A*S*H.”However, it was “Night Court,” a show that poked gentle fun at bureaucratic absurdity, that would become his signature work. The series centered...
Apple Builds a New Home on Facebook's Back Porch
Label: Technology We knew that Apple was building a pair of new data centers close to Facebook’s operation in Prineville, Oregon. But we didn’t realize just how close they were until we spent a plane over Oregonian high desert.The notoriously secretive Apple is especially secretive about its data centers. So while Google and Facebook have opened up their doors to Wired reporters over the past year, Apple has...
Deportation looms for tech guru McAfee after heart drama
Label: LifestyleGUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Software guru John McAfee, fighting deportation to Belize, was rushed to a hospital in Guatemala on Thursday shortly after his asylum request was rejected, but a suspected heart attack turned out to be stress in a fresh twist to the saga.The 67-year-old U.S. computer software pioneer was taken swiftly from a hospital in a police car out of the sight of media, after earlier...
Dec
06
Baca shifts course on compliance with deportation program
Label: World Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has reversed his support for a controversial deportation program, announcing Wednesday that...
Step to the Beat
Label: Technology Going out for a run used to just be about lacing up your sneakers. Now when you head out, you can feel like you’re drowning in tech: GPS watches, sports bands, sweat-proof earbuds, smartphone apps with cadence-matching playlists. And that’s before we even talk about what’s on your feet.But we wouldn’t subject ourselves to this mountain of gadgetry if it didn’t really help. As our goals become...
UK’s Kate leaves hospital after morning sickness
Label: LifestyleLONDON (Reuters) – Prince William‘s pregnant wife Kate left the King Edward VII hospital in central London on Thursday where she had spent four days being treated for acute morning sickness.Accompanied by her husband, Kate, 30, appeared at the steps of the hospital smiling and holding a bouquet of yellow flowers. Neither she nor William spoke to waiting reporters before being driven way.Kate, who...
Antismoking Outlays Drop Despite Tobacco Revenue
Label: HealthFaced with tight budgets, states have spent less on tobacco prevention over the past two years than in any period since the national tobacco settlement in 1998, despite record high revenues from the settlement and tobacco taxes, according to a report to be released on Thursday. Paul J. Richards/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesState antismoking spending is the lowest since the 1998...
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