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Fairbanks On 'Threshold' of New EPA Clean Air Rule
Matt Buxton, Fairbanks Daily-News MinerA top state air official says it's too soon to tell if Fairbanks North Star Borough will violate new clean air standards announced by the Environmental Protection Agency. The new target reduces the maximum annual level of small particulate...Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Pollution, Standards, Asthma, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Air Force Says F-22 Oxygen Problem is Solved
Channel 2 NewsThe Air Force believes that it's solved the years-long mystery of why F-22 pilots have suffered potentially dangerous, hypoxia-like symptoms aboard the world's most advanced jet fighter. And the answer is so insanely simple, some Congressmen don't...Tags: Military Equipment, Aerospace Manufacturing, NASA, Transportation Accidents, Langley Air Force Base
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Spring Snow Melts Leave Dust Across Anchorage
Channel 2 NewsAs spring snow melts continue, the dirt that is left behind can make spring a challenging season for some Alaskans. Air quality in Anchorage has been "moderate" for the past few days, posing a moderate health concern for people who may be unusually...Tags: Allergies, Environmental Pollution, Asthma, Health, Symptoms
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Alaska State Troopers Seek Driver in Hit and Run near Soldotna
Channel 2 NewsAlaska State Troopers say they're seeking the driver of a sport-utility vehicle that struck and injured an 7-year-old girl outside Soldotna. The girl was taken to Central Peninsula Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, which her mother...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Health, Human Body
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Alaska Officials Report Regional Tuberculosis Spike
Channel 2 NewsAlaska state health officials say they are responding to an increase in cases of confirmed and suspected tuberculosisin the Yukon-Kuskokwim region. Officials with the Department of Health and Social Services say the cases have occurred in several...Tags: Coughing, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Tuberculosis
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Alaska Joins Several States In Cigarette Label Lawsuit
Channel 2 NewsSeveral states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the...Tags: Human Rights, Economy, Business and Finance, Food and Drug Administration, Tobacco Products, Justice System
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Kimberly McBroom's Blog
Tuesday, May 7 I truly hope you were able to catch "Susan's Story," either last night at 6 or today on WDBJ 7 Mornin'. Susan Bahorich bravely shared her personal struggle with ovarian cancer. I am so proud of her for being open and honest with what she is...Tags: New Year's Day, Katherine Jackson, Josh Powell, John F. Kennedy, Tom Selleck
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State Probing Claims that Homes Making Residents Sick
KTLA NewsWILDOMAR, Calif. (KTLA) -- More families in the Riverside County community of Wildomar are coming forward, claiming their homes are making them sick. According to attorneys, 17 families (about 65 people) who live in the Autumnwood development now claim...Tags: Ears and Hearing, Pneumonia, KTLA, Justice System, Symptoms
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Catonsville child awaits heart after transplant falls through
Five-year-old Teresa Bartlinski was lying unconscious shortly after 3 a.m. Friday at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia when the doctor told her parents they had called off the heart transplant she was prepped to receive. The girl — whose...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Roman Catholicism, Baltimore County, Heart Transplants, Birth Defects
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Quit-smoking programs The Learn To Live program of the Anne Arundel County Department of Health offers quit-smoking and power-to-quit-smoking kits. Kits are available from the Learn To Live Line, 410-222-7979, or from the Spanish language Line, 410-222-...Tags: Mental Health, Addiction, Substance Abuse, Death, Annapolis
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As adopted daughter awaits new heart, family prays for miracle
Nobody believed Liu Fang, born with half a heart and abandoned in a village west of Beijing, would survive long after being adopted by a Baltimore County family. Even the Bartlinskis, deeply religious Catholics, expected the girl's lungs would fail even...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Parkinson's Disease, Annapolis, Baltimore County, Heart Transplants
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Tuberculosis case at UMBC
Officials at the University of Maryland Baltimore County have a sent a letter to students and faculty confirming that someone on campus has been diagnosed with tuberculosis. The letter did not say if it was a student or faculty member who was infected...Tags: University of Maryland Baltimore County, Chills, Diseases and Illnesses, Baltimore County, Fever
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