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| The year 1995 was pretty busy. Operation Desert Storm in Iraq officially came to an end, the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was bombed on April 19, "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed in a horse riding accident in May, and The Grateful Dead played their last concert on July 9.
It sounds like a lot of doom and gloom, but 1995 also featured a development that improved the jobs of many hospital safety professionals lucky enough to have had their jobs 20 years ago, and for that matter, made patient care and safety in hospitals that much better. |
| News Headlines A 30-year-old man was shot and killed on March 22 in what police are calling a "targeted event" outside the doors of Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to a report in the Boston Herald.  On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed banning most powdered gloves in the U.S. While the use of these gloves is on the decline, the risks associated with them for both healthcare workers and patients cannot be corrected through new or updated labeling, says the FDA.
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