ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—Former Advanced Nurse Practitioner Jessica Joyce Spayd (52) was sentenced in U.S. District Court yesterday to 30 years (360 months) imprisonment for illegally prescribing and dispensing opioids outside the scope of legitimate medical practice that resulted in the deaths of five people between 2014 and 2019. United States District Judge Joshua M. Kindred handed […]
Algae that commonly grow on snow in the Pacific Northwest have been ignored in melt models, but their presence significantly increases snowmelt compared with clean, white snow, according to a study conducted on Mount Baker in the North Cascades, Washington. Scientist Alia Khan at Western Washington University and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at […]
“We never got anything telling us to recertify,” said one Florida resident whose children lost coverage. “We never got anything saying we were booted out of the system.” A healthcare catastrophe is unfolding across the U.S. as states—now unrestrained by coverage rules enacted early in the coronavirus pandemic—continue to remove people from Medicaid at an […]
King Cove, AK – The King Cove Group (King Cove Corporation, Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove, Native Village of Belkofski, City of King Cove and the Aleutians East Borough) provided the following statement on the Ninth Circuit Court decision published Thursday. As former U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt recognized, this is a health […]
