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CARLA K. JOHNSON
From Associated Press
June 08, 2010 9:12 PM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — A new federal study finds many same-day surgery centers — where patients get such things as foot operations and pain injections — have serious problems with infection control.
Failure to wash hands, wear gloves and clean blood glucose meters were among the reported breaches. Clinics reused devices meant for one person or dipped into single-dose medicine vials for multiple patients.
The findings, appearing in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest lax infection practices may pervade the nation’s more than 5,000 outpatient centers, experts said.
Continue reading Study: Lax infection control at surgery centers
LAURAN NEERGAARD
From Associated Press
June 07, 2010 3:40 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — More medical care won’t necessarily make you healthier — it may make you sicker. It’s an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe.
Anywhere from one-fifth to nearly one-third of the tests and treatments we get are estimated to be unnecessary, and avoidable care is costly in more ways than the bill: It may lead to dangerous side effects.
It can start during birth, as some of the nation’s increasing C-sections are triggered by controversial fetal monitors that signal a baby is in trouble when really everything’s fine.
Continue reading Overtreated: More medical care isn’t always better
BARBARA ORTUTAY
From Associated Press
May 26, 2010 9:24 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — In Facebook’s vision of the Web, you would no longer be alone and anonymous. Sites would reflect your tastes and interests — as you expressed them on the social network — and you wouldn’t have to fish around for news and songs that interest you.
Standing in the way is growing concern about privacy from Facebook users — most recently complaints that the site forced them to share personal details with the rest of the online world or have them removed from Facebook profiles altogether.
Facebook responded to the backlash Wednesday by announcing it is simplifying its privacy controls and applying them retroactively, so users can protect the status updates and photos they have posted in the past.
Continue reading Facebook adjusts privacy controls after complaints
CHRIS CAROLA
From Associated Press
May 18, 2010 11:38 AM EDT
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — On a Friday night 50 years ago this week, folk singer Jackie Washington stepped up to the tiny stage of Bill and Lena Spencer’s new coffeehouse.
He was Caffe Lena’s first performer, and thousands of singers and countless songs later, the coffeehouse started by the artsy couple from Boston is a folk music icon. On May 22, a half century plus a couple days since it opened, the 85-seat venue — considered the oldest continuously operating coffeehouse in the United States — will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a concert by Arlo Guthrie, who has described Caffe Lena as “a national treasure.”
Guthrie, whose hits include “Alice’s Restaurant” and “City of New Orleans,” played at Lena’s early in his career and at a few fundraisers held for the coffeehouse over the years. He’s headlining the anniversary concert being staged at a 550-seat theater at Skidmore College, located in this horse racing and resort town 30 miles north of Albany.
Continue reading Good folk: Iconic NY coffeehouse marks 50th year
RYAN J. FOLEY
From Associated Press
May 14, 2010 7:33 PM EDT
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in India in 1992 to pose a question.
Scientists often study depression, anxiety and fear, but why not devote your work to the causes of positive human qualities like happiness and compassion? the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader asked.
“I couldn’t give him a good answer,” recalled Davidson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist.
Continue reading Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness
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