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.
The Austrian singer suffered severe head injuries in the crash before losing his life just two weeks before his 41st birthday on Feb. 6, 1998. 7. David Halberstam. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam tragically died at age 73 in a car crash south of San Francisco on April 24, 2007.