by Jacqueline Klimas | Jul 28, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — In the first seven months of 2011, there have already been 156 reported cases of measles in the U.S., three times the average of prior years. The nationwide spike is caused by a measles outbreak in Europe, said Jane Seward, a director in the...
by Jacqueline Klimas | Jul 27, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Myleah Rhynes spent Christmas 2009 like many mothers across America—opening presents with her children. Myleah, however, was in the intensive care unit of Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. The Providence Village, Texas, mother traveled to...
by Chelsea Whyte | Jul 27, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – The Army is moving forward with caution on the proposed biodefense center at Fort Detrick. The Medical Countermeasures Test & Evaluation Facility is planned for construction in 2014, but before it breaks ground – or even designs the building – the...
by Chelsea Whyte | Jul 27, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON –The bottom rows of grocery store aisles, usually reserved for brightly packaged foods set right at kid’s eye level, may be in for a makeover – and it’s what’s inside the boxes that could be changing. New recommendations from government agencies could...
by Gabrielle Levy | Jul 25, 2011 | Education, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON—When the shuttle Atlantis touched down at the Kennedy Space Center Thursday, more than three decades of NASA’s space shuttle program ended. ram. . But the programs that introduced students to the space shuttle aren’t planning on going anywhere. For many...
by Matt Yurus & Noor Wazwaz | Jul 20, 2011 | Business & Tech, Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON–A bipartisan coalition of U.S. politicians urged that the auction of wireless spectrum be used to, in part, fund a public safety wireless network for first responders, which has been stalled since the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks....
