For nearly 50 years, a statistical omission tantamount to data falsification sat undiscovered in a critical study at the heart of regulating one of the most controversial and widely used pesticides in America. Chlorpyrifos, an insecticide created in the late 1960s by the Dow Chemical Co., has been linked to serious health problems, especially in […]
DHSS Thursday announced 79 new people with COVID-19 in Alaska. 76 are residents in 17 communities: Anchorage (37), Fairbanks (14), Wasilla (7), Bethel Census Area (2), Kenai (2), Northwest Arctic Borough (2), Utqiaġvik (2) and one each in Bristol Bay/Lake & Peninsula boroughs, Dillingham, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Kotzebue, Nome, North Pole, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Willow and Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area. Three nonresident cases were […]
DHSS today announced 79 new people with COVID-19 in Alaska. 76 are residents in 17 communities: Anchorage (37), Fairbanks (14), Wasilla (7), Bethel Census Area (2), Kenai (2), Northwest Arctic Borough (2), Utqiaġvik (2) and one each in Bristol Bay/Lake & Peninsula boroughs, Dillingham, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Kotzebue, Nome, North Pole, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Willow […]
CDC provides more than $200 million to address COVID-19 health disparities in Indian Country The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new study that specifically examines how COVID-19 is affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) – one of the racial and ethnic minority groups at highest risk from the disease. […]