Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Computer system provides boost to premature babies (People locator)

Over-stretched local hospitals will be able to find cots for premature babies thanks to a new national computer system. St George's Hospital, Tooting made headlines in October after it was revealed that 518 premature babies had been refused treatment last year due to a lack of resources.
The search for climbers missing on Oregon's Mount Hood is costing the county government there up to $6,000 per day, but national search-and-rescue leaders say that is just a fraction of the total costs of such a mission.
It came just 48 hours before the Belfast republican was arrested in connection with the so-called Stormontgate scandal - the alleged IRA intelligence gathering operation at the heart of government here.
SNOWBIRD, Utah -- Rescue crews tried a helicopter-mounted locator system Thursday that could turn the odds in favor of saving avalanche victims buried under snow.
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