Alaska Lawmakers Should Maintain Strong Tobacco Control Funding and Increase Tobacco Taxes to Save Lives, Save Money and Raise Revenue ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Cancer patients and survivors mark the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) 45th annual Great American Smokeout tomorrow, November 19, by calling on Alaska lawmakers to prioritize strong tobacco control legislation and policies that […]
Lockdowns across the globe prevented millions of deaths from the novel coronavirus, new studies published Monday report. According to a study by the Imperial College of London, some 3 million deaths were averted in eleven countries – Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland – because of lockdown measures including […]
We are the Youth Leaders of Prince of Wales, a group of teens consisting of ages from 12-17 that are part of a Youth Leadership Program run by the Prince of Wales Health Network in Southeast Alaska. We are a combined group from the nine communities across the length of the island and are […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – It was Thursday morning, and my phone buzzed with a text message from South Korea’s emergency alert system, as it has hundreds of times during the coronavirus outbreak. Someone in my Seoul neighborhood — a 35-year-old Polish male — had tested positive. Clicking a link to a government website revealed an astonishing […]
