Reliance on cells slowed tornado workers
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In the chaos after a tornado killed nine people in Enterprise, emergency workers had trouble talking to one another because they tried to use their cell phones instead of the state's $18 million emergency communications upgrade, officials say.
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CHOLUTECA, Honduras -- When Hurricane Mitch tore into this sleepy Pacific coastal province of dairy farms and cane fields in October 1998, its torrential rains and winds swept away an entire way of life -- and opened up unexpected new vistas of change.
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Wind-borne spores probably brought the soybean rust fungus from South America during the hurricane season. They were discovered after most of Louisiana&#39;s soybeans had been harvested, says state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom.
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A cutting-edge laboratory has opened in Alabama.  Its mission: to combat diseases ranging from asthma to malaria to stroke using data from NASA satellites.  Space scientists and public health officials are working together to train the doctors of tomorrow in this far-out approach to medicine.
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A team of researchers has found that severe emotional distress may speed up the aging of the body's cells at the genetic level.
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Rescue efforts are under way in  southern US states after a series of tornadoes killed at least 20 people.
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By Michael Stroh, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 17--One Baltimore scientist has discovered what may be the key to aging and cancer's Achilles' heel. Another invented a technique universally used to pry loose the secrets of cells.
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Portions of Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma are most at risk of being hit with tornados late this evening, the National Weather Service reported.
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Blood changes, including a steep decline in disease-fighting white cells, have been found in workers persistently exposed to low levels of benzene, a common industrial chemical known to pose a leukemia risk at high concentrations.
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When 1,800 workers lost their jobs after a Maytag appliance factory and headquarters closed last year in the small town of Newton, Iowa, a wind turbine blade company saw opportunity Â an available, skilled workforce in the middle of one of America's hardiest wind energy production regions.
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LAFAYETTE, Tenn. Feb. 7 -- All over this small town of tobacco farms and lumber mills, people began yesterday to grieve and pick up the mess left behind after one of the deadliest tornado strikes in state history.
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Scientists find a way to make cells effectively immune to flu and other viruses.
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Residents tried Thursday to put their lives back together in a swath of the South raked by tornadoes that killed 55 people on Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
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Researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center found that almost 70 percent of workers who helped with the cleanup suffered new or worsened respiratory symptoms.
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A series of tornadoes causes damage to buildings and vehicles across central and southern England.
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By Garth Stapley, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Sep. 23--Tending to an ugly car wreck and a house fire on a late-summer day kept volunteer firefighter Chris Ott from working on a harvester at the family farm west of Modesto.
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&quot;For years, scientists have been trying, without success, to find a link between higher incidences of cancer and the electromagnetic fields produced high voltage power lines.