WINCHESTER: The Tioga Archery Club has scheduled a 3-D trail fun shoot for April 13 at the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club facility.Registration for the shoot will be from 7-11 a.m. There will be 40 animal targets set up along the trail.Entry fees will be $20 for a family, $16 for a couple, $10 for [...]
The winter steelhead fishing season will continue through this month on the North and South Umpqua rivers while the spring chinook fishery kicks into gear on the lower main Umpqua.Following are reports from sources who deal with the fisheries on a daily basis.�People are starting to fish for springers a little bit heavier. I know [...]
For years, Barbara Clark has lived near the Umpqua River. But until just recently, she had never fished the river and never caught a steelhead.That changed when she and her husband Jonathon joined fishing guide Scott Worsley for a day of steelhead fishing on the South Umpqua River in the Winston area.Barbara Clark, a counselor [...]
CHICAGO — Having a defibrillator at home can help a heart attack survivor live through a second crisis, but so can CPR and at a much lower cost. That’s the bottom line from the first test of using these heart-shocking devices in the home.The devices worked. But so few people in the study were stricken [...]
State Health Secretary Mary Selecky joined other national health leaders in Washington, D.C., on Monday to launch a new stop-smoking campaign.
Smokers have heard all of the life-saving reasons why they should quit. The free program, called EX, wants to make current smokers ex-smokers by targeting how they can quit.
In 2006-2007, the anti-smoking [...]
Trubridge took 3min 20sec to sink to 84 metres then ascend to the surface in the constant weight (no fins) category at Deans Blue Hole last Friday, the Vertical Blue news website said.
The record was held by 37-year-old Austrian Herbert Nitsch, who broke Trubridges previous record last October when he reached 83m in Dahab, Egypt.
Trubridge, [...]
The White House, which backs the House bill, said the program is supporting anti-retroviral treatment for about 1.45 million people and is on track to meet its goals of backing treatment for 2 million, preventing 7 million new infections and providing care for 10 million, including orphans and vulnerable children.
In 2007, 33 million people [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Minister of Health and Environment, Rudyard Spencer, has said that cases of dengue in Jamaica have been declining, with the Ministry intensifying its efforts to stem the spread of this and other communicable diseases. %26quot;The dengue fever outbreak which started in July last year, peaked in November and since then, has been [...]
As the hooter sounded at Westpac Stadium, reserve loose forward Thomas Waldrom seemed to ground the ball after a nifty move down the right wing by centre Conrad Smith and wing Shannon Paku.
Smith had also appeared to be tackled without the ball when trying to regather Pakus infield pass but despite pleas from the Hurricanes [...]
Individuals with the condition, known as isolated systolic hypertension, who participated in relaxation training had a better chance of being able to drop at least one of their blood pressure drugs than individuals in a control group who did not participate in relaxation training, Dr Jeffery A. Dusek of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and [...]
