COLORADO SPRINGS - Authorities searched a suburban Denver home early yesterday, seeking any link between two deadly shooting sprees at Christian religious centers that left five people dead on a day of worship. Four people and a gunman died in the attacks Sunday at a megachurch in Colorado Springs and at the Youth with a Mission missionary center in the town of Arvada. Five others were wounded. Police in Arvada said they believed the shootings, which occurred 12 hours and about 65 miles apart, were probably linked, though they had nothing conclusive to back up the theory. (AP)
Intensive care units are so noisy and disruptive that patients cannot get the restorative sleep that they need to heal, according to a report released yesterday. But if nurses and technicians would simply adjust their schedules and avoid constantly waking patients through the night, patients may do better, the team at the University of Texas Southwestern found. "We haven't recognized the importance of prescribing sleep," said Dr. Randall Friese, who led the study published in the Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection and Critical Care. Nurses, doctors, and technicians say their schedules require regular checks on patients, even through the night. But Friese said this may be interfering with the goal of getting the patient better. (Reuters)
