LOS ANGELES, April 12 (UPI) — Kristen Alderson, Roger Howarth and Michael Easton are to return to the upstate New York-set soap opera “General Hospital” next month, ABC said.
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1803 – French law rules the use of intention
1938 – Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 – Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
1963 – Soap operas “General Hospital” and “Doctors” premier on TV
1991 – Dwight Gooden signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets
1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1901 – Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (d. 1961)
1924 – Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (d. 2003)
1929 – Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being)
1939 – Phil Niekro, knuckleball pitcher (NY Yankees, Atlanta Braves)
1982 – Sam Huntington, actor (Jungle 2 Jungle)
1988 – Robin Lopez, American basketball player
1866 – Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98
1869 – Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard, Min of Reformed Worship, dies at 69
1957 – Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies
1973 – Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies
1989 – Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57
2001 – Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (b. 1908)
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To help celebrate General Hospital‘s 50th anniversary on April 1, EW obtained an exclusive look at the very first scenes from the long-running ABC sudser — which, naturally, begins with images of busy nurses (and a fairly ominous soundtrack). Brace yourself for the Twilight Zone feel of the original black and white episode, and see if you recognize anyone!
By Lesleyann Coker, Contributor
This week marks a major milestone for two mainstays of American television. The Young and the Restless (owned by Sony and airing on CBS) celebrated 40 years on the air March 26th, and General Hospital (owned by ABC and airing on the network) celebrates its 50 years on TV April 1st. …read more
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BURBANK, Calif., March 18 (UPI) — SOAPnet says it will mark the 50th anniversary of “General Hospital” by airing a 50-episode marathon of the upstate New York-set, daytime drama series.
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Cerus Signs INTERCEPT Platelet Agreements With Two Key Blood Component Suppliers in Germany and Austria
CONCORD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cerus Corporation (NAS: CERS) announced today that the TILAK, University Clinics, Regional Hospital Innsbruck (LKI) in Austria and ZIT GmbH Hamburg in Germany, signed one and four year purchase agreements, respectively, for the INTERCEPT Blood System for platelets.
LKI is one of the largest hospitals in Austria, with its Central Institute for Blood Transfusion supplying an estimated 6,000 platelet units annually to the federal state of Tyrol. LKI is the second facility in Austria to adopt INTERCEPT for platelets. Together with the General Hospital of Vienna (AKH), an estimated total of 12,000 platelet units, or 30% of the Austrian platelet market, could be treated with INTERCEPT. Implementation of the INTERCEPT platelet system at LKI is expected to start in March 2013.
ZIT Hamburg supplies roughly 10,000 platelet units annually and is the largest in-house blood component supplier to the Asklepios Group, one of the three largest operators of private hospitals in Germany. Implementation is expected to occur upon ZIT Hamburg’s receipt of regulatory approval from the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut to produce INTERCEPT-treated platelets.
“Considering the inherent limitations and increasing cost of the current testing strategies used for platelets, we believe the INTERCEPT Blood System for platelets offers a strong value proposition that combines patient safety with commercial benefits,” stated O. Schertges, CEO of the ZIT Hamburg.
“We believe the breadth of clinical and routine-use data for INTERCEPT platelets accumulated over the last 10 years may have positively influenced the decisions made by LKI and ZIT Hamburg,” said William ‘Obi’ Greenman, Cerus’ president and chief executive officer. “It is this clinical experience and hemovigilance data that led to FDA‘s recent agreement to allow Cerus to proceed with a modular PMA submission for INTERCEPT platelets without the need to conduct another prospective clinical trial.”
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15 (UPI) — U.S. actor and musician John Stamos says he would consider returning to “General Hospital” but only if his character had something interesting to do.
Officials say attackers in northeastern Nigeria have killed three South Korean doctors, beheading one in the assault.
The attack happened Saturday night in Potiskum, a town in Yobe state. Officials told an Associated Press journalist that the doctors worked at the General Hospital in Potiskum.
The AP journalist saw the dead in the hospital morgue. One had been beheaded in the attack.
The three routinely traveled alone and without security guards in the city, which has been a repeated target of a radical Islamic sect known as Boko Haram. A Nigerian police official confirmed the attack took place, but declined to immediately comment further.
A second western New York hospital is notifying patients that they may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C through the improper sharing of insulin pens.
Olean (OH’-lee-an) General Hospital says Thursday that it’s mailing letters to 1,915 patients who received insulin at the hospital from November 2009 through last week.
Hospital officials say the action follows an internal review conducted after recent news reports brought the issue of insulin pen-sharing to light. Last week, the Veterans Affairs hospital in Buffalo said more than 700 patients may have been exposed to blood-borne pathogens over a two-year period when multi-use pens intended for use by a single patient may have been used on more than one person.
The Olean hospital is recommending blood screening.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (UPI) — U.S. actor Jack Wagner is to return to “General Hospital” after a nearly 20-year absence, TVGuide.com reported.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (UPI) — Actor Kin Shriner is the latest “General Hospital” alum re-joining the upstate New York-set soap opera, TVGuide.com reported.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at UPI Entertainment
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9 (UPI) — Genie Francis, the U.S. actress who has played Laura Spencer on and off since 1976, is returning to “General Hospital” next month, ABC said.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 (UPI) — U.S. actor Steve Burton, who left “General Hospital” three months ago after more than 20 years, is to join the cast of “The Young & The Restless.”
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