A reusable stitch in time saves nine? U.K. hospital sterilizing suture kits to reduce waste

It's almost second nature for doctors to toss aside a suture kit once they've patched up a patient. But as those instruments join a pile of medical waste in an industry already heavy with single-use items, one U.K. hospital is pivoting to reusing them.

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Israel's Netanyahu in hospital after getting pacemaker amid judicial reform turmoil

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was fitted with a pacemaker on Sunday after experiencing a heart arrhythmia, and was under observation in the cardiac ward of a Tel Aviv-area hospital, his doctors said.

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