Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, July 20, 1995 TAG: 9507200070
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
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At least 155 people have come down with infections, and four have died, because hospital workers mishandled a new kind of anesthetic, a federal study has found.
These cases probably represent a fraction of contamination incidents that have occurred since the anesthetic propofol, sold as Diprivan, was first marketed in 1989, said officials with the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than 100 million people worldwide have received propofol injections since 1989. Its popularity continues to rise because it causes far less grogginess, discomfort and cloudy thinking after surgery than most other anesthetics.
- Newsday
Elvis' doctor loses license
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Elvis Presley's doctor lost his license Wednesday when the state decided he over-prescribed addictive drugs to patients who included Jerry Lee Lewis.
The Board of Medical Examiners found George Nichopoulos guilty of gross malpractice and unethical conduct with 13 patients.
- Associated Press
Clinton gives cadet posthumous award
GREENVILLE, S.C. - A former slave from South Carolina who more than a century ago was beaten by fellow cadets at West Point and then drummed out of the corps, will finally receive the Army commission his descendants have sought for years.
Acting on a request from Congress, where Sen. Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina had pushed for the posthumous commission, President Clinton is to award it at a White House ceremony Monday to the family of the one-time cadet, Johnson C. Whittaker.
Also to be turned over then is what Whittaker's granddaughter Cecil Pequette described Wednesday as the real award: his Bible, which was seized as evidence for his court-martial in 1881 and has been stored in the National Archives.
- The New York Times
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