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 Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan has died suddenly at a hotel aged 46, her publicist has confirmed. The Irish rock star, who has recently been performing with a band called D.A.R.K, was staying in London while recording. Her publicist did not comment on how she died, other than it say it was 'sudden' and that her family are 'devastated'. Met Police told MailOnline that O'Riordan was found in a room of the Hilton London in Park Lane at 9.05am, and that the death was being treated as 'unexplained'.