Wednesday 3 August 2011

UK's First Artificial Heart Transplant - Led by Dr. Steven Tsui

On the 2 August, 2011 British news media reported the UK's first artificial heart transplant. It was led by the Papworth Hospital's Clinical Director of Transplant Services, Cardiothracic Surgeon, Steven Tsui. Steven  was Cambridge educated and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Last year, Dr. Tsui was featured on the hospital's website for the first successful  heart lung transplant in Europe.


ITN News report - UK First Portable Artificial Heart Patient (2 Aug 2011)






Thursday 21 July 2011

American Chinese Priscilla Chan, fiancee? of Facebook Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg

In June 2011, the UK Metro newspaper website reported that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg might be engaged. So who is Chinese American Priscilla, soon to be Mrs. Facebook? Viewing her facebook profile in a Daily Mail article, she was a 4th and 5th Grade teacher in San Francisco. According to Aol's Huffington Post's article: Meet Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg's No-Nonsense Girlfriend; they met at Harvard,  have a rule to date once a week, and interested Mark in chinese culture that he studied mandarin daily before his business trip there.

Wendi Murdoch - Ninja - slamdunks the opposition

Wendi Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's third wife, Wendi's second husband (Rupert) who is 47 years her senior (first one was 30 years older than her).  Did that make sense? Perhaps not...anyway she perhaps stole the limelight and perhaps attention from the proceedings in Westminster when she defended her husband who was getting a foam - cream pie, thrown in his face. See the footage, on the sky news clip below! And in the press she was nicknamed 'Wonder Wendi' and 'the Ninja.'