Day: February 15, 2017

Sparta family raises diabetes awareness

For the Gildea family, diabetes isn’t just a disease; it’s a daily battle. Sparta residents Katie and Chris Gildea, along with their two young sons, ages 3 and 7, will volunteer this June at the American Diabetes Association’s upcoming Skylands Tour de Cure, an event which helps fund diabetes research.

Parliamentarians say that 2.5 million children in Britain have alcoholic parents

Britain is facing a “secret scandal” over failings in the care of the country’s 2.5 million children of alcoholic parents, a group of MPs and peers have warned. The all-parliamentary group, supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury, said their research uncovered a “shocking picture of support for children of alcoholics”, including an apparent absence of strategies to deal with the issue and a dearth of funding in many areas.

Researchers explore role played by nicotine in grouping of nicotinic receptors within the brain

This inspired a group of University of Kentucky researchers to explore the role nicotine plays in the assembly of nicotinic receptors within the brain. During the Biophysical Society’s 61st Annual Meeting, being held Feb. 11-15, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Faruk Moonschi, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky, will present the group’s work, which centers on a fluorescence-based “single molecule” technique they developed.

Dhanayshar blanked

Despite an appeal by Independent Senator Dhanayshar Mahabir in the Senate yesterday, he failed to get the required support for his motion to start the process for certain Senators “without portfolio” to benefit from a pension in the future. When the vote was taken, Government, Opposition and even Independent Senator Ian Roach – who sits next to Mahabir – did not support the motion.

Higher Discussion Absent from Fatca Debate’

In 1998 the controversy in the Caribbean surrounded the ship rider agreement between nation states of the Caribbean and the United States of America. US President, Bill Clinton pushed an agreement on Caribbean nations giving the US the right to pursue suspected drug traffickers into its territorial waters thereby infringing on their national sovereignty.

Valentine’s Day sees two big insurance breakups

It was a rough day for the already-roiled U.S. health insurance market: One giant merger was abandoned, another is threatened by infighting, and a major insurer announced it will stop selling coverage on public exchanges in 11 states. Both merger deals had already been rejected by federal regulators and judges, but the companies were considering appeals to those decisions.

Pick for Medicare post faces questions

President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid advised Vice President Mike Pence on health care issues while he was Indiana’s governor, a post she maintained amid a web of business arrangements – including one that ethics experts say conflicted with her public duties. A review by The Associated Press found Seema Verma and her small Indianapolis-based firm made millions through consulting agreements with at least nine states while also working under contract for Hewlett Packard.

Evaluation of the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule.

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. A solitary pulmonary nodule is a common radiologic finding that is often discovered incidentally and may require significant workup to establish a definitive diagnosis.

Home star show

There will be a strong Tasmanian interest attached to Friday’s AFL clash between Hawthorn and Geelong with four home-grown products chances to play. There will be a strong Tasmanian interest attached to Friday’s AFL clash between Hawthorn and Geelong with four home-grown products chances to play in the JLT Series opener at UTas Stadium.

Supervisors hear updates on county roads, flu

… “We just don’t want to lose the rock if we end up getting some more big snows this year,” Hamilton County Public Health Administrator Shelby Kroona told the board that the peak of the flu season is here. Kroona said the biggest strain in Iowa is the …

Epilepsy group seeks to enlist help to fight illness

The Epilepsy Foundation of Guyana on Monday hosted a discussion with several stakeholders to enlist their help to raise awareness about the illness and available treatment. The discussion coincided with the observance of International Epilepsy Day, under the theme ‘Putting Epilepsy in the Picture.’