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.
May 21, 20116:59pm. Randy Savage fighting Hulk Hogan. THE Macho Man Randy Savage, considered one of the most famous wrestlers of all-time, has died in a car crash. The 58-year-old, known as Macho Man, is thought to have suffered a heart attack at the wheel of his vehicle n Seminole, Florida near Tampa. He lost control of the car and hit a tree around 9:25am this morning, Savage's brother, Lanny Poffo, told TMZ.