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Sunbeam Products is recalling almost a million crockpots sold by retailers including Amazon, Target and Walmart after roughly 100 consumers were burned — some seriously — when the lids blew off in use, spewing hot food and liquid. The recalled Crock-Pot multi-cooker can pressurize when the lid is not fully locked, causing the lid to suddenly come off in use, posing burn risks to consumers from spewing hot food and liquids, according to a notice posted by the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. Sunbeam has received 119 reports of lids detaching, resulting in 99 injuries ranging in severity from first-degree...

I do not collect many souvenirs, but I saw one piece of inaugural bliss I would like to have: the Commemorative Barack Obama Sunbeam. Each sunbeam, the ad tells us, comes with a certificate guaranteeing that it passed over the “raised visage of the anointed one,” and “while supplies last,” we are promised that the dust motes floating in each sunbeam will contain at least one dead skin cell from the Lightworker himself. The ad is satire, of course. It is making good fun of the Messianic glow that so often seems to surround the incoming president in the eyes...

Houston Mother Loses Fight To Keep Baby On Life Support Baby Sun Born With Fatal Genetic Disorder POSTED: 11:23 am EST March 15, 2005 UPDATED: 6:29 pm EST March 15, 2005 HOUSTON -- A critically ill baby at the center of a lengthy court battle died Tuesday shortly after being removed from life support at a Houston hosptal. A judge in Houston on Monday lifted an injunction the mother had won that prevented doctors from halting the care they believed was futile. Sun Hudson was born with a fatal genetic disorder. Wanda Hudson unsuccessfully fought to continue the medical care...

Hospital ends life support of baby 1st U.S. case of its kind is against mom's wish, in accordance with law 10:52 PM CST on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 By BRUCE NICHOLS / The Dallas Morning NEws HOUSTON — In what medical ethicists say is a first in the United States, a hospital acting under state law, with the concurrence of a judge, disconnected a critically ill baby from life support Tuesday over his mother's objections. The baby, Sun Hudson, who'd been on a mechanical ventilator since his birth Sept. 25, died quickly afterward, his mother said. "I held him ......

Sun Hudson, a baby born with a lethal deformity and on a ventilator since birth nearly six months ago, will be disconnected from life support at 2 p.m. Tuesday, according to a lawyer representing the baby's mother.Today, Harris County Probate Court Judge William C. McCulloch reaffirmed an earlier, groundbreaking decision to lift restrictions preventing Texas Children's Hospital from ending life-sustaining treatment for the child.According to bioethicists, no U.S. judge has ever let a hospital discontinue life support on a living baby."I feel bad. I don't have any plans to appeal, at this point," said Mario Caballero, the lawyer for Wanda...

(AP) - Scientists in Israel have concentrated free sunlight into a high-intensity beam typically reserved for expensive laser surgery. Details of the liver surgery experiments on mice appear in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. "It would be especially valuable in my university's medical center, which has not been able to afford a single laser fiber-optic surgical system," said the study's lead author, Jeffery M. Gordon of Ben-Gurion University in Tel Aviv. Sophisticated laser surgery equipment costs more than $100,000, while the sunlight scalpel system is assembled with off-the-shelf parts. Gordon and partner Daniel Feuermann used a rooftop mirror less...