Review of latest genetic evidence suggests infectious diseases are tens of thousands of years older than previously thought, and that they could jump between species of ‘hominin’. Researchers says that humans migrating out of Africa would have been ‘reservoirs of tropical disease’ – disease that may have sped up Neanderthal extinction. A new study suggests […]
Troopers report that on Thursday evening they received an unnatural death call from a 24-year-old female in Soldotna. The Soldotna woman, whose name was not revealed called in to 911 at 6:20 pm “reporting that she had found her 12-month-old son unresponsive in the bathtub,” troopers said in the trooper dispatch. Troopers and Central Emergency […]
Alaska State troopers were notified of a structure fire in Kwethluk during the early morning hours on Monday, the trooper dispatch reported. Bethel-based AST received a call at 5:52, reporting a fire with a fatality in the small community in southwest Alaska. Troopers say that Public Safety Officers in the village had brought the fire […]
Research conducted by scientists at the University of York has revealed how recreational ketamine abuse damages the bladder. In two studies, one of which is published this week, the team shows how ketamine present in urine causes damage to the epithelial lining of the bladder, allowing urine to penetrate into underlying tissues which causes inflammation […]