BRIEFCASE HOSPITAL SHUTS ACUTE REHAB UNIT.Byline: - Staff and Wire Reports VAN NUYS - Valley Presbyterian Hospital closed its acute rehabilitation unit late last week, citing a significant decline in patient volume, hospital officials said Friday. Six nurses and four therapists worked in the unit, which had been in operation for about a decade providing therapy to orthopedic patients. Hal Wurtzel, vice president of corporate development, said the hospital is making plans to ensure that patients who need such care in the future will be given comprehensive rehabilitation. Hotel workers list strike supporters A cardboard ``wall of support'' for almost 3,000 hotel workers was unveiled Friday at Olvera Street to draw attention to their ongoing contract dispute with nine of Los Angeles' premier hotels. Ramona Ripston, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. of Southern California, stood before the wall, which bears the names of hotel workers and community members who support them. The Los Angeles Hotel Employers Council and UNITE HERE Local 11 are at an impasse. Last month, union officials accepted management's proposal that they meet with Peter Hurtgen, director of the Federal Mediation Conciliation conciliation: see mediation. Service. Both sides have been meeting regularly under the auspices of Hurtgen, who helped settle last year's grocery workers strike and lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout , as well as the dockworkers strike of 2002. Sony to settle suit over false reviews Sony Pictures Entertainment has reportedly agreed to settle a class action lawsuit class action lawsuit A lawsuit in which one party or a limited number of parties sue on behalf of a larger group to which the parties belong. For example, investors may bring a class action lawsuit against a brokerage firm that has actively promoted a tax filed by moviegoers who claimed they were duped into seeing films lauded in bogus reviews company executives planted in ads. Citing a source with ``knowledge of the settlement talks,'' Reuters wire service reported the Sony unit has agreed to pay $1.5 million into a fund to settle the case. That could amount to about $5 per participant in the class action - less than the price of most movie tickets. Any remaining money would go to charity, the source said. The suit was filed in Superior Court in 2001 by Omar Rezec of Los Angeles and Ann Belknap of Sierra Madre, who claimed they were misled into seeing ``A Knight's Tale'' because of a bogus review by a fake critic named David Manning. Firm sues Saudis over 9-11 attack NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, a bond trading firm that lost two-thirds of its workers in the World Trade Center attack, has sued Saudi Arabia for allegedly supporting al-Qaida prior to the Sept. 11 attack through financing, safe houses, weapons and money laundering The process of taking the proceeds of criminal activity and making them appear legal. Laundering allows criminals to transform illegally obtained gain into seemingly legitimate funds. . The company, in a $7 billion lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and made public Friday, also named dozens of other defendants, including numerous banks and Islamic charities, in a bid to hold them accountable for its losses in the terrorism attack. A message for comment left with the Saudi Arabia embassy in Washington was not immediately returned. Firm recalls dog heartworm heartworm Species (Dirofilaria immitis) of filarial worm that parasitizes mammals, especially dogs. Up to 500 adult heartworms, which can grow to 6–12 in. (15–30 cm) long, live in the dog's heart, and the microfilariae (embryonic larvae) pass into the blood. drug WASHINGTON - ProHeart 6, a twice-a-year, time-released heartworm medication used to prevent the parasite in millions of dogs, was recalled Friday at the request of the Food and Drug Administration after thousands of animals suffered adverse reactions adverse reactions, n.pl unfavorable reactions resulting from administration of a local anesthetic; responsible factors include the drug used, concentration, and route of administration. . ProHeart 6 was the first, and only, product approved by the FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. to be administered once every six months to treat heartworm disease in dogs. |
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