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Hardwired communications and computing devices are no longer the preferred tools of the trade for doctors and nurses at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) in Winston-Salem, N.C. That is because the academic health system has gone wireless.

The 1,300-bed facility-comprising North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Brenner Children's Hospital-concluded that a campus-wide wireless network would give medical staff faster and easier access to patient records via its electronic medical records (EMR) system.

A Missouri woman indicted on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on MySpace and posing as a teenage boy pled not guilty on Thursday. Lori Drew's alleged shenanigans led to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier. Megan killed herself after the "boy" who feigned romantic interest in Meier later spurned her and told her, among other things, that the world would be a better place without her.

On Thursday, a Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on MySpace. The woman posed as a teenage boy who feigned romantic interest in a 13-year-old girl, Megan Meier, who later committed suicide after the "boy" spurned her and told her, among other things, that the world would be a better place without her.