Before you vote: Robert Travis Scott, president of the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, will moderate the Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s upcoming EBR Mayor-President Candidate Forum on Oct. 18. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the forum will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Baton Rouge Magnet High School Auditorium, 2825 Government St. BRAC board members will pose questions that are modeled closely to the six issue areas that BRAC identified in its election platform. The event is free and open to the public. Get more information.
New options: Patients at Baton Rouge General’s Pennington Cancer Center will have another radiotherapy treatment option with the TrueBeam linear accelerator, which reduces treatment times and improves patient comfort. Patients can be treated in just a few minutes a day, with 25% less X-ray dosage than with previous options, according to a news release. Candidates for the treatments are patients with complex tumors in the lung, breast, liver, abdomen, head and neck. The device targets tumors that move, leading to shorter and more comfortable treatments.
Production stopped: Samsung Electronics Co. has suspended production of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after reports of fires in replacement devices added to the tech giant’s worst ever recall crisis, a source tells Reuters. Fires in phones that were meant to replace devices that had been recalled because of their propensity to explode suggests that Samsung has failed to fix a problem that has already hurt its brand and threatens to derail a recovery in its mobile business. A Samsung official told Reuters earlier today the company was investigating reports of “heat damage issues” and would take immediate action to fix any problems in line with measures approved by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Air carriers have banned the use of Note 7s after a replacement device forced the evacuation of a passenger plane in the United States last week. Read the full story.
