CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan health officials believe swine flu killed one person and have diagnosed 12 other people with the virus, the country's health minister said Thursday.
One 32-year-old person died on Wednesday and health authorities, seeing it as a suspicious case, began tests on others, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said.
A total of 12 people tested positive in the southwestern state of Merida, including one who is hospitalized and others who are receiving …
Aug. 29 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans, causing one levee to break.
Aug. 30 - Second levee breaks, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Water reaches 10 feet deep around Memorial Medical Center.
Aug. 31 - Some patients and staff evacuated by boat and taken to dry ground but evacuations halt when authorities run out of ground transport.
Sept. 1 - Several patients allegedly given lethal doses of morphine and a sedative.
Sept. 2 - Remaining patients and staff airlifted from hospital.
Sept. 11 - Search teams …
Events Surrounding Hospital DeathsAug. 29 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans, causing one levee to break.
Aug. 30 - Second levee breaks, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Water reaches 10 feet deep around Memorial Medical Center.
Aug. 31 - Some patients and staff evacuated by boat and taken to dry ground but evacuations halt when authorities run out of ground transport.
Sept. 1 - Several patients allegedly given lethal doses of morphine and a sedative.
Sept. 2 - Remaining patients and staff airlifted from hospital.
Sept. 11 - Search teams …
Si, una vez m�s tenemos que entrar en el tema y decirlo sin rodeos. Resulta que para algunos que no hicieron nada por Cuba en Cuba y otros que cooperaron con Fidel Castro para entregarla al comunismo, nosotros somos los villanos de la pel�cula. De esta pel�cula del destierro que nada tiene de ficci�n. De esta pel�cula que es real, que es hist�rica y que para unos es drama y tragedia y para otros es un paseo, una delicia. Paseo y delicia porque para esos el drama de la patria es un motivo de especulaci�n, de demagogia, de oportunismo. Para los equivocados de siempre somos nosotros los que estamos siempre equivocados porque decimos en el exilio mas o menos lo mismo que dijimos en La …
The European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP), a voluntary bottlemakers initiative supported NGOs involved in bottle recycling and production, has recognised the recyclability of ColorMatrix's oxygen scavenging HyGuard and light blocking Ultimate UV additive technologies by concluding that they will have "no negative impact on current European PET recycling".
HyGuard is not based on an oxidisable polymer like conventional oxygen scavengers. Instead, it is a catalytic barrier system, which works in conjunction with the bottle closure system, leaving the container wall free of any additive material which may have a negative effect on container clarity and therefore limit its …
Girls: Burnt Hills and Averill Park are the class of Class A. Both teams play in the mighty Suburban Council against many of the top Class AA teams. ... The Spartans and Warriors split a pair of games this season, but Burnt Hills has lost three in a row. ... Averill Park travels to …
Cable network revamps its Nick Jr. lineup, including Henson Productions project
Run for cover, Big Bird. You're about to get slimed.
Faced with growing competition in the preschool category from the Public Broadcasting Service. The Discovery Channel and others, cable network Nickelodeon is embarking on a $30 million revamp of its 9 a.m.-2 p.m. "Nic Jr." daytime lineup.
As part of the revamp, Nickelodeon will work with Jim Henson Productions to develop 40 two-minute vignettes featuring original characters with spin-off series potential.
Nickelodeon has seen its ratings soar among 6-to-11-year-olds with offbeat cartoons like Ren & Stimpy …
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A two-time "American Idol" contestant from Maine is facing a domestic abuse charge after a police officer saw her hit her husband.
A police report says 25-year-old Jessica Candage of Yarmouth was spotted Sunday evening by a Portland officer who said it appeared she was preventing her husband from walking toward him. The officer then saw Candage punch her husband, Craig, in the face several times.
Craig Candage told …
