Short of hospital nurses in recent years, St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica hired a recruiter in England and flew one...
Spanish newspaper sorry for “false photo” of Venezuela’s Chavez
Label: TechnologyMADRID/CARACAS (Reuters) – Spain‘s influential El Pais newspaper apologized on Thursday for splashing a “false photo” of Venezuela‘s cancer-stricken leader Hugo Chavez on its front page, prompting a furious response from the government in Caracas, which vowed to take legal action.Within minutes of posting the image online as a global exclusive, El Pais said it had discovered from social media that...
Brooke Shields signs up for a hitch on Lifetime’s “Army Wives”
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Brooke Shields has signed up for the Air Force – or at least the Air Force as it’s portrayed on “Army Wives.”“Pretty Baby” star Shields will join the cast of the Lifetime series for its seventh season, the network said Thursday.Shields will play Katherine “Kat” Young, a brash, brilliant Air Force colonel and crack C-17 pilot who clashes with Gen. Michael Holden (Brian McNamara)...
40 Years After Roe v. Wade, Thousands March to Oppose Abortion
Label: HealthDrew Angerer/The New York TimesPro-life activists made their way down Constitution Avenue toward the Supreme Court during the March for Life in Washington on Friday. WASHINGTON — Three days after the 40th anniversary of the decision in Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion, tens of thousands of abortion opponents from around the country came to the National Mall on Friday...
Johnson & Johnson Hid Flaw in Artificial Hip, Documents Show
Label: BusinessJohnson & Johnson executives knew years before they recalled a troubled artificial hip in 2010 that it had a critical design flaw, but the company concealed that information from physicians and patients, according to internal company documents disclosed Friday during a trial over the device’s failure. The medical device giant had received complaints from doctors about the device, the...
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787 Dreamliner's safety systems failed, NTSB says
Label: World After investigating a fire that broke out on Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner passenger jet, the National Transportation Safety Board...
Nintendo Reaches into Wii U Grab Bag, Pulls Out Some Vague, Some Fascinating Promises
Label: TechnologyIt’s been a ho-hum 2013 for Nintendo’s Wii U so far: some carry-over posturing about scads of “launch window” titles, but less than a handful of games with bankable release dates. When I checked the hopper for January, February and March, I counted four, maybe five Wii U titles with firm dates, all of them least a month or two off.That’s not how you move systems, and Nintendo ran damage control Wednesday...
GLAAD protests Nat Geo’s collaboration with Boy Scouts
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – The advocacy group backed a Change.org petition started by Will Oliver, a 20-year-old gay Eagle Scout, that calls on Nat Geo to air a disclaimer clarifying the network’s views before each episode of its new series, “Are You Tougher than a Boy Scout.” It debuts this spring.“That National Geographic would brush aside countless gay teens suffering at the hands of the BSA,...
The New Old Age Blog: Grief Over New Depression Diagnosis
Label: HealthWhen the American Psychiatric Association unveils a proposed new version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the bible of psychiatric diagnoses, it expects controversy. Illnesses get added or deleted, acquire new definitions or lists of symptoms. Everyone from advocacy groups to insurance companies to litigators — all have an interest in what’s defined as mental illness —...
DealBook: S.E.C. Pick Is Ex-Prosecutor, in Signal to Wall Street
Label: Business3:30 p.m. | Updated President Obama announced Thursday his nomination of Mary Jo White, a former federal prosecutor turned white-collar defense lawyer, to be the next chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.In a short ceremony at the White House, Mr. Obama also said he was renominating Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a post Mr. Cordray has held...
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