AltWeeklies Wire
Cosmic Censusnew
Astronomers find the earliest galaxies seen by man.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
12-20-2012 |
Science
Tags: Astronomy
Doctors' Ordersnew
The implementation of an electronic medical records exchange has been delayed.
Tucson Weekly |
Dave Devine |
05-12-2011 |
Science
Health Mattersnew
Pima County retirees' complaints over insurance cuts lead to an Attorney General investigation.
Tucson Weekly |
Mari Herreras |
03-25-2011 |
Science
Tags: Insurance, Pima County
Scientists Fight to Explain High Childhood Leukemia in Sierra Vistanew
In 2001, Pat Durkit's granddaughter, Jessica, then 2 years old, was diagnosed with leukemia. In 2004, Jessica's half-sister in Phoenix, Kellie, was given the same diagnosis. Their father and Pat's son, Dale, grew obsessed with finding a cause for the disease.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
03-03-2010 |
Science
Genetic Detectives: Find Out Where You Fit on the Family Treenew
I'm one of more than 300,000 people who have sent cheek cells to the Genographic Project, an effort of the National Geographic Society and IBM that hopes to assemble a database of DNA samples to better understand the migrations of humans tens of thousands of years ago.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
12-10-2009 |
Science
Price Tags: The Elephant in the Room in Health Carenew
Selling stuff to patients is like supplying the Pentagon: Welcome to the wonderful land of the surreal markup. When you're sick or in pain, you do not shop for bargains -- which is the main reason that the free-market model is a catastrophe for health care.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
11-11-2009 |
Science
Ignorance and Stupidity are Leading Too Many People to Avoid Flu Vaccinesnew
There are some parents who don't think that the H1N1 flu will be worse than any other flu, so why bother? I actually agree with them, but they're in the minority of the abstainers. The vast majority of those who are rejecting the vaccine are doing so out of wrongheaded politics or an empty-headed misunderstanding of science.
Tucson Weekly |
Tom Danehy |
10-15-2009 |
Science
If You May One Day Need to Go to an ER, You Should Support Health-Care Reformnew
The health-care reform debate has stirred strong emotions, but all the attention has been paid to the fury and fear on the right. Take it from me: There's plenty of both on the other side.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
09-16-2009 |
Science
A Wide Border Network Helps Separate Swine-Flu Facts From Fictionnew
Whether this bout of swine flu goes hog-wild or fizzles into history, it has allowed officials to test an emerging communications network that reaches from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention down to little Nogales, Ariz.—and then leaps the border into Mexico.
Tucson Weekly |
Tom Vanderpool |
05-07-2009 |
Science
Tags: swine flu, communication
Farewell to the Phoenix Mars Landernew
When the end finally came, Phoenix was killed off by an unforgiving dust storm that blew across the arctic plains of Mars.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
11-28-2008 |
Science
They Call Him Dr. Germnew
As microbiologist Charles Gerba cheerily explains, billions of nasty microbes await you every day.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W. Banks |
10-09-2008 |
Science
International Collectionsnew
A Tucson hospital turns Mexican creditors over to the feds.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
09-12-2008 |
Science
Living Forever?new
Can technology and science add to our human existence? Transhumanists think so.
Tucson Weekly |
Irene Messina |
08-15-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
University of Arizona Scientists' Probe Set to Land on Marsnew
Finding life is pretty much the holy grail (and marketing angle) of space science, but even if scientists don't detect life signs, this mission will provide clues to the conditions that future manned missions to Mars may face.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
05-22-2008 |
Science
Brain Trustnew
Researchers tap clues about memory and aging.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
02-10-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
