EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Deaconess Hospital in Evansville is
without its principal water supply after a break to a city water
main.
The hospital remained open Wednesday, although spokesman San
Rogers says elective surgeries have been canceled and bottled water
is being distributed to its 350 patients. He said no patients have
had to be transferred and that emergency care was available.
The water main broke about 1 a.m. Wednesday, and Rogers said
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SYDNEY (AFP) — An Australian navy diver who fought off a shark in a rare attack in Sydney Harbour was in high spirits despite losing a hand and facing the prospect of losing a leg, his family said Thursday.
Able Seaman Paul de Gelder, 31, was taking part in a defence exercise near an upmarket residential area of the harbour in Australia’s largest city when he was attacked Wednesday.
“As a result of the attack Paul has lost his right hand Read the rest of this entry »
A 20-year-old man working at a San Martin winery lost his right leg after he got caught in a piece of equipment used to drill holes in wine barrels.
Mike Van Loben Sels, battalion chief for the South Santa Clara County Fire Protection District, said the accident was reported at 9:47 p.m. Monday at ASV Wines, 12805 Llagas Road.
The employee’s leg was caught in an auger — a large spiral screw used in different parts of the wine production Read the rest of this entry »
Police believe the man broke into three homes and attempted to burglarize a fourth on Wednesday morning.
Police Captain Walt Vasquez says officers spotted the suspect, a white man who appeared to be about 35 years old, near the University of California, San Diego Medical Center. When police gave chase, he ran into the hospital, darting through its halls and cafeteria.
Vasquez says police blocked all the exits and searched all 11 floors of the Read the rest of this entry »
Former Overweight Police Officer Loses 56 Pounds Of Fat In Just 9 Weeks!
Former Maine cop Shawn Lebrun sheds 56 pounds of fat and gains 18 pounds of muscle. Just 9 weeks later, Shawn enters a natural bodybuilding contest. As a result, Shawn starts an online personal training company and has now helped over 48,000 men and women get in shape.
Lewiston, ME (
) September 16, 2008 — Former Maine cop Shawn Lebrun sheds 56 pounds of fat and gains Read the rest of this entry »
WHITE PLAINS – A Connecticut doctor accused of having sexually explicit online conversations with an undercover investigator posing as an underage boy has agreed not to practice medicine in New York state.
According to the state Health Department, Dr. Clifford Berken agreed yesterday not to practice in New York “or any other jurisdiction where the practice of medicine is predicated on his New York State medical license.” The agreement goes into Read the rest of this entry »
MIAMI, Florida (CNN)
— A doctor’s license was revoked Friday in the case of a teenager who planned to have an abortion but instead gave birth to a baby she says was killed when clinic staffers put it into a plastic bag and threw it in the trash.
The doctor, Pierre Jean-Jacques Renelique, also is the subject of a criminal investigation. Renelique was not present when the baby was born, but the Florida Medical Board upheld Department of Health Read the rest of this entry »
“Blaming the media” is
a catch-phrase that is used in almost cliché-level proportions. But
when it comes to health care, a new study indicates it may be appropriate to fault media coverage for a lack of public knowledge about
health care policy — and by extension the false perception of reproductive
rights as ideological “hot rods” rather than women’s health concerns.
conducted with the Kaiser Family Foundation
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LONDON — Novartis AG is pulling out all the stops to avoid what the drug industry calls “the cliff.”
Sales of Novartis’s blockbuster drug, Diovan, are expected to tumble when the high-blood-pressure pill’s patent expires in four years. That puts Joe Jimenez, a former packaged-goods executive tapped to run Novartis’s prescription-drug business last year, in the difficult position of finding ways to make up for some $5 billion in annual revenue. Read the rest of this entry »
A 20-year-old man working at a San Martin winery lost his right leg after he was caught in a piece of equipment used to drill holes in wine barrels.
Mike Van Loben Sels, battalion chief for the South Santa Clara County Fire Protection District/CalFire, said the accident was reported Monday at 9:47 p.m. at ASV Wines, 12805 Llagas Road.
The employee’s leg was caught in an auger — a large spiral screw used in different parts of the wine production Read the rest of this entry »