PORTLAND, Ore. – About three out of four older Americans have multiple chronic health conditions, and more than 20 percent of them are being treated with drugs that work at odds with each other – the medication being used for one condition can actually make the other condition worse.
Gene Wescott, a professor emeritus of geophysics and long-time employee at the UAF Geophysical Institute, died in Hawaii on Feb. 23, 2014. Wescott had been with the GI since 1958.
Searchers continue to comb through the rubble of the collapsed apartment buildings in New York searching for more survivors after a suspected gas leak demolished the building on Wednesday and killed at least seven people there.
Some of the world's most advanced military technology is on display in Asian waters this week in the search for the missing Malaysian passenger jet, but the plane's whereabouts are still a mystery six days after it disappeared.