Sutures, stitches and staples are used for the same purpose - to close wounds or surgical incisions - but they are not the same. For sutures, doctors use a thread or strand of material to perform wound closure. The term stitches refers to the surgical procedure or process of closing a wound with sutures.
Visit Guest Book. LOS ANGELES (AP) â Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he picked up as a child in New York, has died of complications related to lung cancer, his record company announced Monday. He was 69.
Forbes died in 1990 of a heart attack, at his home in Far Hills, New Jersey. In March 1990, soon after his death, OutWeek magazine published a story with the cover headline The Secret Gay Life of Malcolm Forbes, by Michelangelo Signorile, which outed Forbes as a gay man.