Unique LA hospital undergoes complex operation

The hospital has hired Jensen + Partners, a downtown project management firm, to oversee two dozen urban planners, architects, geologists, traffic analysts, civil engineers, historians and others who have begun piecing together preliminary ideas for the site.
Sarah Jensen, the president and founding partner of Jensen + Partners, said when she started, she attempted to find what are known in the world of real estate as “comps” — comparable properties Read the rest of this entry »

Recovery operation winding down at crash site

The grim task of identifying the 50 victims of Continental Flight 3407 is expected to
scale down by the end of the week at the crash site in Clarence Center.
However, giving names to all the human remains may take weeks as the focus of efforts now
turns to the work of medical examiners and their colleagues in the morgue, Erie County Health
Commissioner Dr. Anthony Billittier IV said Tuesday.
He said the major work is complete and expressed Read the rest of this entry »

Unique LA hospital undergoes complex operation

The hospital has hired Jensen + Partners, a downtown project management firm, to oversee two dozen urban planners, architects, geologists, traffic analysts, civil engineers, historians and others who have begun piecing together preliminary ideas for the site.
Sarah Jensen, the president and founding partner of Jensen + Partners, said when she started, she attempted to find what are known in the world of real estate as “comps” — comparable properties Read the rest of this entry »

MediaCorp DJ joins Operation Smile mission to Cambodia

By Lynette Koh,
SINGAPORE: FOR the first nine years of his life, the people in Thanh’s village called him “Sut” — which means “split lip” in Vietnamese — as a result of his cleft lip. On his first day of school, he was teased so badly by the other children that he refused to go back.
All this changed, however, after he received cleft lip surgery from medical specialists during an Operation Smile mission trip to the southern Vietnamese city of Read the rest of this entry »

Hospital hopeful for Ballesteros after third operation on brain

Doctors at Madrid’s La Paz hospital have declared Seve Ballesteros’s third brain operation a success. Yesterday’s surgery lasted 6 hours and was intended to alleviate pressure on the brain caused by an oedema – the accumulation of fluid – and to remove remaining tumour tissues located in a very deep part of the brain.
Ballesteros, the 51-year-old five-times major winner, was diagnosed with a tumour this month and had already had two operations – Read the rest of this entry »

Golf-Seve responding well after third brain operation – hospital

MADRID, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Seve Ballesteros is responding
well to treatment on his brain tumour, the Madrid hospital
treating the Spanish golfer said on Wednesday.
The 51-year-old had a third operation to reduce brain
swelling and remove more of the tumour last Friday.
“The patient Mr Severiano Ballesteros has a favourable trend
in his neurological status but needs to be further controlled in
the Intensive Care Unit,” La Paz hospital said in a Read the rest of this entry »

Operation Nets Drugs, Suspect

Operation Nets Drugs, Suspect
A two-month long undercover operation by local, state and federal authorities has broken up a drug-distribution ring in Central Texas.
A 28-year-old Duncanville man was arrested on the parking lot of an east Hillsboro business about 7 p.m. Thursday, October 9.
The suspect was attempting to deliver six pounds of methamphetamine to undercover agents. He was also carrying a loaded .45 caliber pistol at the time of Read the rest of this entry »