Health
Florida oyster farm may be start of new industry
Under a brilliant blue sky, a wet-suit-clad Clay Lovel drops down into waist-deep water, groping in the cloudy jade brine. He tosses away a predatory conch before his older brother Ben, on deck, grabs a hook, and together they haul aboard their Carolina Skiff what looks like an oversized fry ...
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Tax, trade and Syria on menu as UK's Cameron rallies world leaders to G-8 summit in N.Ireland ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron says leaders gathering Monday for the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland should reach speedy agreement on trade and tax reforms, and draw inspiration ...
Rays' Cobb released from hospital after being hit
Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Alex Cobb left the hospital and went home Sunday, one day after he was hit in the right ear by a line drive. The Rays announced during their game against Kansas City that Cobb had been released from Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg. The team ...
St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare cutting 160 jobs
St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare has announced plans to lay off 160 employees at its hospitals. BJC spokeswoman June Fowler told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1afIAV9) that this was the first time in the nonprofit organization's 20-year history that the St. Louis-based health system has resorted to layoffs. BJC HealthCare operates ...
Gunmen in Pakistan kill 2 anti-polio workers
Gunmen killed two anti-polio workers Sunday in northwest Pakistan, police said, the latest violence directed at efforts to eradicate the disease from the country. The two attackers shot the two Pakistani health workers while they were on a vaccination drive in rural Kandar village, said Swabi District Police Chief Mohammad ...
Flu cases in Ohio make huge jump over past years
The number of Ohioans hospitalized with the flu since last September jumped dramatically over the previous year, but health officials say there isn't an easy explanation for the increase. Health officials say that 5,200 Ohioans were hospitalized with the flu from September last year through mid-May 18. That's up from ...
Ohio hospitals bid to reach rural stroke patients
Far from the hospital-building boom in Columbus, a far less visible but no less fierce battle between OhioHealth and Ohio State University is sweeping the state's towns and smaller cities. It's a race to bring technology to rural Ohio that can save the lives of stroke patients. Neurologists in Columbus ...
SD officials work to keep wild hogs out of state
South Dakota wildlife officials want to send wild pigs crying all the way home. The state does not currently have an established population of feral pigs, but that appears to be changing. Just a handful of years ago, feral pigs were an easily ignored problem to the south. They weren't ...
Rays pitcher Cobb struck by line drive
Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Alex Cobb was taken off the field on a stretcher after he was hit on the right ear by a liner off the bat of Kansas City's Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning of Saturday's game. Cobb put a hand on his head after being struck. ...
Sick, sunburned bottlenose dolphin rescued in Fla
A sunburned bottlenose dolphin was rescued after being stranded in a thick bed of seagrass at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. A kayaker first spotted the stranded dolphin and SeaWorld Orlando staff later went out to free the adult male bottlenose dolphin Thursday at the Merritt Island National Wildlife ...
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