About A-backs and uni complaints Aug 22, 2008
The world is mental enough without some fat hairball encouraging him on the radio. What ever happen to being a gentleman with some class. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
A supercomputer takes on a killer Jun 28, 2008
One project is analyzing the complicated ways in which proteins interact - a tangle of connections Dr. Jurisica describes as "a hairball" - trying to determine how, for example, the same type of cancer can act aggressively in one patient and slowly in another. One of the computer's tasks is analyzing the vastly complex ways in which proteins interact, in an effort to determine how a type of cancer can act aggressively in one patient and slowly in another. (Globe and Mail)
McCain's superfuture May 20, 2008
The farm bill is one big hairball of accommodations and trade-offs, apparently invulnerable to the forces of reform, presidential vetoes or even the reality of record commodity prices. Cheers to McCain for taking a principled stand against it. (International Herald Tribune)
Pet hair, poop and other cleaning challenges May 10, 2008
Cobb: If you've got a hairball, or spaghetti didn't agree with the dog, accident on the carpet, the first thing you do is scream and run to get the paper towels and start trying to pick it up, which drives it down into the carpet fibers. Instead, reach for your baking soda. (CNN -- US)
Our areas dirty jobsPosted 7 hours, 34 minutes ago. Jan 23, 2008
The worst part about cleaning the tanks is removing hairballs, Boerger said. Hairballs are solid masses of waste that accumulate around the air nozzles at the bottom of the sludge tank ... A hairball s composition can include actual human hair, razor blades, shards of metal, feminine hygiene products and condoms, among other things. (Lima News, OH)
Wooten: A big, big win for Romney Jan 17, 2008
Not so the barren Dusty, who simply hacks up a hairball and declares herself clever. No Dusty, the only scabs around here can be found on your pudenda. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Editorial: New Leb attempts to herd cats Jan 12, 2008
Imagine the evidence needed to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt: hair (hairball. samples, paw print analysis, scratch marks on the crime-scene tape. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Vets know: Dogs will eat anything Jan 2, 2008
Cats also often have hairball problems. One particular patient Brown remembered was a Lhasa Apso that came in on an emergency and was vomiting, weak and anemic. (Elizabethtown News Enterprise, KY)
Strange Stories That Stunned Us In 2007 The past year has been full of strange stories - and Sky News Online has shown off some of the best. More... Dec 31, 2007
After suffering with tummy ache, the girl complained to doctors who scanned her and were stunned to see the monster hairball blocking her innards. Perhaps she should have consulted a certain 66-year-old man in China. (Sky News)
The online list of all lists Dec 31, 2007
From the Web site, a compilation of a dozen of the oddest medical stories from 2007, including the girl with the 10-pound hairball in her stomach, the tree man who sprouted roots, the man with no brain living a functional life, the man who oozed green blood and the person who suffered from "the mother of all hangovers.". (Keith Darnay is the webmaster and designer for. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Top 12 Strangest Health Stories of 2007 Dec 28, 2007
Surgeons in Chicago removed a 10-pound hairball from the stomach of an 18-year-old girl suffering from a psychological condition in which she ate her own hair, according to a report in the Thanksgiving edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. The hairball measured 15 inches by 7 inches by 7 inches when it was removed. (Fox News)
Sit, someone, please sit Dec 14, 2007
" This is one of the many deterrents I have experienced in trying to find pet care during the holidays, a process so arduous I am surprised the pet industry is largely caught up in the manufacturing of dog socks and cat singlets, instead of cornering this urgent niche market. I have lived alone, or with various roommates, for six years now, and have only now begun to try to rectify the problem of regular, not-terrifying pet care, a concern that always spikes during the holiday season. That is,... (Globe and Mail)
Safeway, UFCW Reach Accord During Eleventh-Hour Negotiations Dec 3, 2007
Monday, December 3, 2007, 4:52 am. You've heard from us, now we want to hear from you. (NBC 11, CA)
Teen Gets 10-Pound Hairball Removed Nov 27, 2007
Hair-Eating Woman Gets 10-Pound Hairball - Health News Story - KPRC Houston ... Courtesy NEJM.orgDoctors removed a 10-pound hairball -- technically called a trichobezoar -- was removed from an 18-year-old woman who admitted to eating her own hair ... Hair-Eating Woman Gets 10-Pound Hairball. (Click2Houston, TX)
U.S. girl with psychosis eats hair Nov 26, 2007
BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- An 18-year-old girl suffering from a psychological condition ate her own hair and formed a massive hairball in her stomach, U.S. media reported Monday ... Doctors at Rush Medical Center in Chicago carried out a scan and were amazed to find the huge mass of hair blocking her entire stomach and removed the massive hairball from the stomach by surgery ... The hairball measured 15 inches (38cm) by 7 inches(18cm) by 7 inches(18cm) when it was removed. (Xinhuanet, China)
Doctors remove 4.5kg hairball from girl's stomach Nov 24, 2007
5kg hairball from girl's stomach ... 5kg hairball from girl's stomach ... 5kg hairball from the stomach of a US teen who was suffering from a psychological condition which caused her to snack on her own hair, a medical journal reports. (Ninemsn)
Ten-Pound Hairball From Teen Girl's Stomach Nov 24, 2007
Surgeons removed a massive 10-pound hairball from the stomach of an 18-year-old girl suffering from a psychological condition in which she ate her own hair, according to a report in this week's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine ... The hairball measured 15 inches by 7 inches by 7 inches when it was removed ... Once the hairball was removed, the patient was discharged and given psychiatric help. (Fox News)
Doctors untangle the strange case of... Nov 24, 2007
Doctors untangle the strange case of the giant hairball - CNN.com ... (CNN) -- It may not be the most appetizing reading before a hearty holiday meal, but the New England Journal of Medicine is devoting part of its Thanksgiving issue to a giant hairball -- and not the feline kind ... Doctors say this hairball removed from a woman's stomach weighed 10 pounds. (CNN -- Law)
4.5kg hairball in teen's stomach Nov 23, 2007
5kg hairball in teen's stomach ... 5kg hairball from a young woman's stomach ... Doctors Ronald Levy and Srinadh Komanduri from Rush University Medical Centre said a scope lowered through her esophagus revealed "a large bezoar (hairball) occluding nearly the entire stomach". (NEWS.com.au)
10-pound hairball in woman's stomach Nov 23, 2007
10-pound hairball in woman's stomach : US World. 10-pound hairball in woman's stomach ... CHICAGO, Nov. 22 Doctors at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago said they have removed a 10-pound hairball from an 18-year-old woman's stomach. (Earthtimes)
Giant Hairball Removed From Teen's Stomach Nov 22, 2007
5kg hairball from the stomach of a teenager in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine" class="main" height="180" /> The hairball: Pic from the New England Journal of Medicine The 18-year-old went to her doctor after complaining of stomach pains and vomiting.Doctors carried out a scan and were amazed to find the huge mass of hair blocking her entire stomach. Advertisement The woman admitted she had been eating her locks for five years, the New England Journal of Medicine reported.The... (Sky News)
Space Station Is Repaired in Spacewalk Nov 4, 2007
Dr. Parazynski, riding on an extension of the stations robotic arm to reach the damaged array, said his view of the repair site revealed a hairball of wire, with guide wire for the array caught in another wire running through the hinge connecting the panels. Looking at a close-up view available from Dr. Parazynskis helmet camera, Pamela A. Melroy, the commander of the space shuttle Discoverys current mission, said, Sounds like you have some surgery to do, Dr. Parazynski. (New York Times)
Risky spacewalk repairs damage Nov 4, 2007
The spacewalker, Scott Parazynski, riding on an extension of the station's robotic arm, said his close-up view of the repair site revealed a "hairball" of wire with guide wire for the array caught up in the wire running through the connecting the panels. Mission managers knew that wires had become snagged and had torn the array in its deployment, but did not know the nature of the snag and had hoped that it would be as simple as moving a wire off of a hinge. (International Herald Tribune)
What Your Cat Wants You to Know Nov 4, 2007
The Cat Bible: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know is an excellent place to start (Time.com)
Joe Klein: Why Drudge is a Disgrace... Sep 19, 2007
" Those things mean that someone's ideas have to get shot down to make room for better ones. If that sounds mean to some of you softies, then consider that attacking ideas, as Drudge does, is harmless and completely justifiable. On the other hand, attacking a person because of his ideas, as Mr. Klein has done, is completely juvenile and un-American. Mr. Klein, the Chinese government would love to have you and your MoveOn friends do some character assassinations for them. Posted by... (The Drudge Report)
Pet Corner: Diligence pays off when one feline’s problem won’t go away Sep 1, 2007
She must have hacked up a hairball and it got caught behind her soft palate on the way up. Her owner was very happy and I carried that hairball around all day showing people. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
ON RELIGION: Movie gets tagged as 'Christian' and loses out Aug 30, 2007
"Reeking of self-righteousness and moral reprimand," spat Jeanette Catsoulis of The New York Times, a movie titled "The Ultimate Gift" could be considered "a hairball of good-for-you filmmaking coughed up by 20th Century Fox's new faith-based label, Fox Faith.". Wait, there's more, because this "cinematic sermon" makes sure that its "messages -- pro-poverty, anti-abortion -- are methodically hammered home.". (Harrisburg Daily Register, IL)
HAYWIRE Hogwarts Jul 11, 2007
This being a magical setting, the dishware emit purrs, meows and, for all I know, the occasional hairball. Umbridge takes umbrage with Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) for talking openly about the return of Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), an evil wizard who killed Harry's parents when he was a baby and has been trying to finish the job for years now. (National Post)
Fear of fireworks Jun 26, 2007
That means not showing various colors of stray hairs; must be impervious to little, sharp cat claws; must recover well from hairball experiences and dog drooling. Impossible, you say. (The Palm Beach Post)
Condors making a comeback Jun 22, 2007
There, veterinarian Kathy Orr operated to remove a hairball trapped by two sticks Junior had swallowed. Such saves underscore the difficulty of returning condors to the territory. (AZCentral)
Demand Woes At HD Supply Biz May 22, 2007
"It's a hairball," said Sanford Bernstein analyst Colin McGranahan, "a roll up of a roll up.". All of that rolling up makes it more difficult for potential buyers to know exactly what they are getting. (New York Post -- Business)
Reasons for Cats Coughing May 11, 2007
Of course if you have a longhaired cat, her coughing could simply be caused by hairballs ... There are lots of cat foods on the market that now have hairball prevention added in so you can avoid this problem ... You can also easily find over-the-counter hairball remedies that are effective or give your kitty papaya supplements if you wish to use something natural. (Suite101.com)
American Nutrition, Inc. Issues Voluntary Recall Apr 29, 2007
Blue Buffalo Spa Select Hairball Control Oven Roasted Chicken 3oz AUG 21 09 APR 15 10 Blue Buffalo Spa Select Kitten Recipe Oven Roasted Chicken 3oz AUG 21 09 APR 15 10 Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul Kitten Formula 5. 5oz 15 AUG 08 15 APR 09 Harmony Farms Country Chicken Entr;e 3oz AUG 21 09 APR 15 10 Natural Balance Ocean Fish Formula 3oz and 6 oz AUG 21 09 APR 15 10. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- Alerts)
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, helped bring demise of Soviet Union, dead at 76 Apr 24, 2007
Then he inherited a large hairball of a job that he wasn't well suited to do on a day-to-day basis. . (Camdenton Lake Sun Leader, MO)
Reader's Alley Apr 16, 2007
One of my cats deposited a very large hairball on the charger. After a valiant effort trying to clean it up, it refused to work. (Helena Independent Record)
Blog: The Ice Man Apr 13, 2007
Oh, and by the way, evidently you didn t watch the third period of that game last night, because Vancouver had the freaking game put away and Luongo absolutely coughed it up like a hairball. Yes, they eventually won in overtime, but if Lehtonen had done the same thing, why is it that I have the feeling you wouldn t praise him for his mental toughness and would instead blast him for the two meatballs he let in to tie the game up. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Pet project: a stroll down memory lane Apr 10, 2007
"Nikka: "Watch that sandpapery tongue of yours, hairball spewer. I'm full-figured. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Obama raises $25 million from 100,000 donors Apr 5, 2007
" Maybe! wrote on April 04, 2007 1:23 PM:"He could donate all that dough to bail out his buddy the hairball governor. Then small businesses won't get burnt with the new tax he wants. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
DeKalb cat sickened by recalled pet food Mar 29, 2007
just thought it was a hairball, so I cleaned it up and didn't think much about it, Cunz said. hen you use the same food for five years, you don't expect it to have poison in it. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Home Depot names site Mar 2, 2007
Thomas Dewing wrote on March 01, 2007 4:41 AM:"The only people that this concerns are the people involved. Raising this much hell about it just adds more fuel to the fire and makes it more difficult for the victims to move on with things. Who can say what was or wasn't? I dont know. I wasnt there. Im pretty sure most of the people who have posted in this forum werent either. What's this about "BRINGING" mousetraps to the basketball game? Like I said they could've got them at the store when they... (Montana Standard, MT)
Shear lunacy: $1.27m for Brit's offcuts Feb 19, 2007
Esther Tognozzi of Esther's Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, California, is hawking the high-priced hairball - along with the pop princess' leftover Red Bull energy drink and her blue Bic lighter. "We still don't know why Britney chose our shop. We'll probably never know," said the shop owner's husband, JT Tognozzi. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Del Monte's Animal House Feb 6, 2007
In a time when indulgent pet lovers dish up meals flecked with yellowfin tuna and salmon for their pets, hard-core cat lovers consider 33-year-old Meow Mix as appealing as a hairball. "It's almost seen as unhealthy--as the McDonald's (nyse: - - ) of cat food," Joseph Tuza, head of Meow Mix, tells the group. (Forbes)
Move Over, Rover Jan 23, 2007
Investors dumped shares of PetMed Express () on Monday after the company coughed up an earnings hairball. The Pompano Beach, Fla. (SmartMoney)
Will ACLU Shake It's Money Maker? Jan 20, 2007
Another slam on the ACLU s shareholder activism: BellSouth actively lobbied Congress and the FCC to eliminate Network Neutrality equal-access protections meant to prevent your internet provider from privileging paid web content over cat lovers blogs and the rest of the hairball topics you ll find in an open net. The FCC imposed Net Neutrality conditions on the AT&T/BellSouth merger that expire in two years, leaving it up to Congress to extend any further internet protections (Maine s Senator... (San Antonio Current, TX)
* ANNE STEPHENSON's new & notable Sep 24, 2006
Its most indelicate question is "What is a hairball?" and its most pathetic question is "How can I make my cat like me more?" That and the fact that there's no mention of poop or humping says much about the behavioral chasm between cats and dogs. This story has been viewed 57 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Planning is everything Sep 15, 2006
Look at the gigantic hairball that the dog coughed up right behind the flunky holding the piece of paper for no reason. I got the part about the obsessed Bush Hatred; that I can see with my eyes closed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Barbara PresnellWhether human or furry, it's hard to let go of an object of much love Jul 29, 2006
We took note of it, but, since Cleo has been overweight for a couple of years, and since summer brings for her a bad hairball problem, we weren't too alarmed. Also because she continued to eat well and continued to be as playful as a kitten, all seemed fine. (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Wooten: Doc, what's the cost? Jul 25, 2006
it looks like TFTT has coughed up another hairball ... TFTT didn t cough up that hairball. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Fans don't like the smell Jul 16, 2006
It's not so much that the Giants coughed up such a prodigious hairball Saturday against the Phillies, or that they did it on a national network, or that they did it at home or even that they left the largest portion of a crowd of 41,401 wishing that they had done anything else with their weekend. It's that it happens so infrequently with them. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Scram, Garfield, these cats are, well, the cat's meow Jul 6, 2006
Although only three segments have aired so far, the show played to packed windows on Madison Avenue, where the cats took up residence June 13-23 with Webcams following their every paw lick, hiss and hairball. "It's fantastic. It's just so nice to be able to see cats having a good time," said Renee Gaslow, a Manhattan gemologist, peering into the house recently. (FOX59, IN)
Vet solves horsehair worm mystery Jun 6, 2006
Talk about a nasty hairball. Dee Gibney was concerned when she found three thin worms in her cat's outdoor water dish. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Disappearing Tattoos Offer Help for Lovelorn Apr 28, 2006
Or those characters in Chinese that you believed meant "eternal love" but later found out to mean "penguin hairball?". Laser treatment is the solution for getting rid of these unwanted body markings, but it can take up to a dozen treatments to bleach away conventional tattoo pigments. (TLC News Roundup)
Sun CEO Steps Down After 22 Years at Helm Apr 25, 2006
He also frequently picked fights with competitors, calling Microsoft's Windows operating system a "hairball" and its Outlook e-mail program "Look out" after a spate of costly viruses targeted it as a means of spreading. Microsoft and Sun also sparred in court. (Sunspot.net -- Business)
McNealy Calls for Open Standards in Security Feb 15, 2006
"Vista security is bolt-on. You can't just all of a sudden take the Windows hairball and decide you're going to secure it with bolt-on services," McNealy said in an interview after his speech. "You can't do that if you don't start with a trusted core. It has to be a holistic approach. Microsoft has the curse of a huge installed base using an operating system that was not done correctly.". (eWeek)
Read Greta's Blog Jan 11, 2006
Also, I once had a flamepoint Himalayan cat named Bezoar, a medical term for hairball. (And he sure was. (Fox News -- Headlines)
