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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has announced federal mortgage insurance approval that will allow construction to begin on a full-service hospital in eastern New Orleans — one of the areas devastated by flooding in 2005 when levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.

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Blue Star Connection, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing music into the lives of children and young adults who are fighting cancer and other life-challenging situations, recently donated a variety of musical instruments to CHRISTUS Sutton Children’s Medical Center. 

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Kick Butts Day is a national day of activism that empowers youth to speak up and take action against Big Tobacco at hundreds of events from coast to coast.  

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UPDATED:  Lakeia Rawls, the victim in Friday's shooting in the 3800 block of Conway Street, died of her woulnd this morning at LSU Hospital in Shreveport.  Charges against Danny Battle will be upgraded from attempted manslaughter to second-degree murder, along with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

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CHRISTUS Schumpert is once again calling all “Miracle Babies,” who have overcome the odds of prematurity and developmental problems in the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for the annual NICU Christmas Reunion.   The event will be Sunday, December 11 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Schumpert cafeteria. 

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Checking in at New York University’s Langone Medical Center now has a high-tech twist. Instead of paperwork, the hospital is using a palm-scanner to trace the unique vein patterns in patients’ hands.

Made by Fujitsu, the scanners use near-infrared waves to take an image of the veins in a person’s palm. As long as the imaging has been done on a patient before, software can then match these pictures against those already on file. Set-up for new patients takes under a minute, and doesn’t require the person to be conscious.

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Sutton Children's Medical Center will host a Celebration of Life and Love memorial service to remember and celebrate the lives of children who have passed away. 

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A 5-year-old Texas girl, suspected of having contracted the H1N1 virus has been released from a Shreveport hospital.

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