WASHINGTON D.C.-Legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Mark Begich to reauthorize funding for the U.S. Coast Guard, and a second bill to allow NOAA to sell a condemned dock in Ketchikan were passed by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation today. Begich is a member of the committee and chairman of the subcommittee on […]
CHICKALOON, ALASKA-Alaska State Troopers received a call yesterday evening at about 4:47 pm. The caller reported an overturned vehicle near mile 86 of the Glenn Highway. When troopers and the Bureau of Highway Patrol arrived on the scene, they found a vehicle, upside-down and partially submerged in a pond next to Long Lake.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Nov. 2, 2011 – The poor safety profile of the smoking-cessation drug varenicline (Chantix™) makes it unsuitable for first-line use, according to a study published in the Nov. 2 edition of the journalPLoS One, an online publication of the Public Library of Science.
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinicresearchers have discovered why measles, perhaps the most contagious viral disease in the world, spreads so quickly. The virus emerges in the trachea of its host, provoking a cough that fills the air with particles ready to infect the next host. The findings may also help in the fight against ovarian, […]