Nearly half of the 1.2 million people killed in traffic accidents around the world each year are not in even in a vehicle. They are on motorcycles and bicycles or walking along roadsides. That finding, released in a report last month, may help explain why 90 percent of the world's traffic fatalities occur in a group of countries that together have fewer than half of the world's cars.
Yet another employee at a Denver hospital has been arrested for stealing drugs. This latest case involves a registered nurse at St. Anthony Central Hospital who was arrested by Denver Police on July 16th. The nurse has been identified as Jillian Fischer, 43. The Denver District Attorney's office is reviewing the case and is expected to file charges next week.
St. Anthony fired Fischer in mid-June. A spokeswoman for the hospital says she didn't work in the operating room, but the spokeswoman wouldn't say whether any patients were ever in danger. After the recent outbreak of Hepatitis C infections contracted from the Rose surgical technician, anyone who has set foot in a Denver hospital has reason to wonder..
Tragically the first Colorado Springs case of hepatitis C linked to the surgical technician recently arrested has been identified. One person who underwent surgery at the Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs appears to have contracted hepatitis C from surgical technician Kristen Diane Parker, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment reported today.
Every teen or pre-teen party seems to offer the opportunity to bounce on some form of inflatable game. Inflatables come in all shapes and sizes with names like moonwalker and bounce house. They're big and bouncy and irresistible to kids.
For many of us, nothing captures the essence of summertime like fresh produce -whether tomatoes and corn on the cob or strawberries and watermelon. After months of half-ripened grocery store produce, the wealth of fresh, local fruits and vegetables is heavenly. And for true connoisseurs, enjoyment of the abundance is enhanced when the bounty is free of unneeded chemicals, antibodies or hormones. But how to assess the degree to which our food is "organic" or "natural"?
Shockingly, a second Denver-area hospital has revealed that surgical patients were possible exposed to hepatitis C as a result of the misconduct of a hospital employee.
Nolo, a publisher of do-it-yourself legal books and software, has created a free dictionary app for the iPhone with plain-English definitions of nearly 4,000 legal terms. Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary contains 3,800 plain-English legal definitions, including many newly coined terms you'll find online and off, such as "typosquatting" and "patent troll". Of course, if you need definitions for legal standards -- even when they're in Latin -- you'll find those too.
The app is based on Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary, which was first published in May and is available both in print and as an eBook. Among the app's features: Users have the ability to suggest words to add to the dictionary, and there is also a searchable directory of lawyers.
Black's Law Dictionary--which defines 43,000 terms and perhaps has a different target audience than Nolo's dictionary--became available on iTunes in April. That app, however, will set you back about $50.
