The crazy lady strikes again for Thursday, September 21, 2006

You can tell I'm a bit upset about a specific issue. Just this morning, I heard that a third baby died at Indianapolis' Methodist Hospital as the direct result of a heparin overdose. A total of six babies at their neonatal ICU were given adult-level doses of heparin, which would be an overdose even in healthy infants, but was an especially large overdose due to their status as premature and/or low birth weight babies. Some doofus - apparently working in the pharmacy - put the adult-level doses... Sign in to see full entry.

The space shuttle Atlantis got back to Florida this morning (9/21/2006), at just after 5 AM Central Daylight Time. NASA was concerned because pictures of the area immediately surrounding the shuttle showed a great deal of what I call "space junk" which might have damaged Atlantis. None of us space geeks want to see another six astronauts literally go up in smoke after the Columbia disaster three years ago, and neither did NASA, so the powers that be delayed Atlantis' landing until this morning. Sign in to see full entry.