Minggu, 24 April 2011

California woman shows off new hand transplanted in rare procedure at UCLA Medical Center

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- For the first time in five years, Emily Fennell has two hands.


The 26-year-old single mother, who lost her right hand in a car accident, showed off her newly donated hand Tuesday while flanked by a team of transplant doctors.


Wearing a protective cast with her fingers poking out, Fennell admitted she's still getting used to it.


"I do feel like it's mine. Slowly but surely, every day it becomes more and more mine," she said.


Fennell received the donor limb in a marathon surgery last month at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. She had been living with a prosthetic limb, but wanted a hand transplant to better care for her daughter.


Sabtu, 23 April 2011

Poll: Youth without degrees at end of job line

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's economic upheaval has been especially hard on young people trying to start their working lives with a high school education or less. Only about a third are working full-time, compared with two-thirds of recent college grads, according to an Associated Press-Viacom poll.


Most say money was a major reason they bypassed college, and the vast majority aspire to more education someday.


Christopher Cadaret's been fixing TVs and stereos for fun since he was 10 years old and thinks he'd like to work in electronics or auto repair. But four months after he dropped out of high school, he hasn't found any kind of job.


Jumat, 22 April 2011

Paul Allen says book not revenge against Gates

NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen defends his new book in Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes," saying it was meant as an important slice of technology history and not as revenge against Bill Gates.


In an interview with Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes," Allen, 58, said he wanted to tell that history the way it happened. He said he hopes people understand and respect that.


In the book, Allen writes about difficult years working with Gates during the early years of Microsoft Corp. He recounts overhearing Gates talking to current CEO Steve Ballmer about reducing Allen's stake in the company - while Allen was undergoing cancer treatment in 1982. Allen left Microsoft in 1983.


Minggu, 17 April 2011

Health Insurance Plans Advantages

Health insurance plans could appear like an added fixed cost that you can not really want. However, health insurance can be helpful for a list of causes. You can seek through health insurance plans to get the better one for you, whether it is something that only covers the some and far-between doctor's visits you might want throughout the year, or disability coverage that takes into account any serious health issues that you must have. Health insurance, if it is the good plan, can assist as a hugely good separate of maintaining you healthy.


Sabtu, 16 April 2011

World's oldest man dies in Montana at 114

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- Walter Breuning's earliest memories stretched back 111 years, before home entertainment came with a twist of the radio dial. They were of his grandfather's tales of killing Southerners in the Civil War.


Breuning was 3 and horrified: "I thought that was a hell of a thing to say."


But the stories stuck, becoming the first building blocks into what would develop into a deceptively simple philosophy that Breuning, the world's oldest man at 114 before he died Thursday, credited to his longevity.


Sabtu, 09 April 2011

A Consumer's Guide to Health Care Overtake

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Most people in the individual market are awaited to move to recently plans by 2014. Analysts tell nearly plans in the group market will belike have misplaced their "grandfathered" condition because of alterations fixed to it.