E-cigarette vaping with nicotine appears to hamper mucus clearance from the airways, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In “Electronic Cigarette Vapor with Nicotine Causes Airway Mucociliary Dysfunction Preferentially via TRPA1 Receptors,” a team of researchers from the University of Kansas, University […]
Image: Dead trees near a shoreline of Russell Fjord about 15 miles from the town of Yakutat. Ned Rozell photo. RUSSELL FJORD — Standing on this smooth gravel shoreline, 15 miles northeast of the town of Yakutat, you can tell something big happened. A forest of dead trees encircles the shoreline. The dry, bone-white stems […]
A sequence of events would lead Anchorage police to a drunk driver who would be additionally charged with leaving the scene of an accident and driving with a revoked license. APD was informed at 9:50 pm on Wednesday evening by a caller reporting that a driver in a blue Honda Civic had just driven […]
Image: In a Journal of Internal Medicine study that followed older adults with prediabetes for 12 years, most remained stable or reverted to normal blood sugar levels, and only one-third developed diabetes or died. CREDIT Ying Shang In a Journal of Internal Medicine study that followed older adults with prediabetes for 12 years, most remained stable or […]