A week after 40,000 Nevadans learned that unsanitary injections might have infected them with hepatitis C or the AIDS virus, five certified nurse anesthetists surrendered their licenses today until authorities learn how and why a surgical center and several clinics reused syringes and vials for four years, the Las Vegas Sun reports. The five nurses worked at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, where the nation's largest hepatitis C scare began. Officials said the outbreak may be "the tip of the iceberg." Dr. Dipak Desai is the majority owner of the endoscopy center. The Las Vegas Review-Journal has more about the investigation The paper writes the state ranks among the worst in the nation for numbers of doctors and nurses per capita, the number of uninsured patients, and the number of unvaccinated children.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Amid hepatitis scare in Nevada, 5 nurses hand in licenses
Oprah Crashes Her Own Web Site
On Monday night, Oprah and Eckhart Tolle, author of “A New Earth,” hit cyberspace in a heavily promoted event intended to help fans transcend their egos and reach new states of spiritual happiness. Cyberspace hit back: More than 500,000 people tried to watch the Webcast, overwhelming the equipment that runs Oprah’s site. Viewers’ screens froze; some saw a message explaining the site was experiencing technical difficulties. Oprah’s production company put out a press release calling the Webcast “one of the largest single online events in the history of the Internet” and apologizing for not being prepared.
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Do Parts of Ohio and Texas Not Count?
Follow the link to the complete text of this interesting article.
In Texas and Ohio, where the latest polls suggest close races between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton today, 334 pledged delegates are at stake. But by the reckoning of some political analysts, voters selecting 142 of these delegates are rendered irrelevant by the Democrats’ primary rules, because they’re likely to be split down the middle among the two candidates. That’s because these delegates will come from the 19 districts in Texas and the 12 in Ohio that have an even number of delegates up for grabs. Slate’s Christopher Beam wrote to California Democrats before their primary that “there’s a good chance your district won’t count.” Adds Michael Barone, in U.S. News & World Report, “Nobody seems to have thought through the consequences of having allocated so many districts an even number of delegates
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
Your Boss Knows What Web Sites You Visit
The survey by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute found that 66% of the 304 businesses surveyed monitor what Web sites employees visit and 43% monitor the contents of the emails employees send. It also found that businesses are willing to act when they feel employees are abusing the technologies: 30% say they’ve fired someone for misusing the Internet and 28% say they’ve fired someone for misusing email.
The AMA seems to think the worst of employees. In its write-up of the survey it accuses employees of playing “fast and loose with internal email,” and the survey’s tone suggests that employees are just waiting for an excuse to goof off.
“It’s the folks who go overboard who get in trouble,” Manny Avramidis, a senior vice president at the AMA, told us when we asked if workers should be worried. He then listed activities that he thought were OK: Sending an email to make sure your child made it home safely or ordering flowers on Valentines Day.
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