By Nancy Shute, NPR The misery of low back pain often drives people to the doctor to seek relief. But doctors are doing a pretty miserable job of treating back pain, a study finds. Physicians are increasingly prescribing expensive scans, narcotic painkillers and other treatments that don’t help in most cases, and can make things […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two El Dorado County elected officials are accusing the other of improprieties in their respective offices. District Attorney Vern Pierson says Supervisor Ray Nutting may have more conflicts of interest than what a grand jury indicted him on. Nutting believes Pierson is on a witch-hunt and is wasting taxpayer money in a […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun If you received all of your economic news from Gov. Brian Sandoval’s campaign Twitter feed, you’d be exuberantly optimistic about the jobs outlook and overall business climate. As the Republican governor prepares to run for re-election on the strength of his economic record, you won’t see him tweet that […]
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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee The El Dorado County Fire Protection District is teetering on the verge of insolvency after running deficits for years, according to documents obtained by the Bee. The district’s reserve fund is down to $130,000, from a peak of $1.4 million in 2008. The department serves 74,000 residents spread over 281 […]
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By Kathryn Reed FALLEN LEAF LAKE – Many people say their church is found outside immersed in the mountains. The chapel at Fallen Leaf Lake takes that to another level. Bells ring through the forest to announce the start of the 8am service on Sunday. And while St. Francis of the Mountains is a traditional […]
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By Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Far humbler corners of America have faced a similar dilemma: How much human activity should be allowed in a natural setting that is also promoted as a tourist destination? The National Park Service is proposing a significant makeover of Yosemite National Park that would change […]
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By Vanessa Allen, Daily Mail If you’re middle-aged and miserable, don’t despair: Give it a decade or two and you’ll be feeling like a carefree young person again. Researchers have revealed that life satisfaction peaks at 23 and 69. People in their early 20s overestimate their future life satisfaction by an average of around 10 […]
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By Kathryn Reed It may not be a paramedic doing chest compressions when the ambulance arrives. Instead, it could be Auto-Pulse. “It has definitely been a game changer in how we run our CPR calls,” South Lake Tahoe firefighter Scott Blasser told Lake Tahoe News. “Auto-Pulse will provide more consistent profusion pressure across the board.” […]
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By Becky Oskin, LiveScience Pesticides from California’s valley farms are collecting in the tissues of a singing treefrog that lives in pristine national parks, including Yosemite and Giant Sequoia, a study finds. The chemicals include two fungicides never before found in wild frogs, said Kelly Smalling, lead study author and a U.S. Geological Survey research […]
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By Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration proposed sweeping new rules on Friday that would require food importers like Walmart and Cargill to make sure that their foreign growers and processors were following American food safety standards to prevent contamination in an increasingly globalized food supply. About 15 percent […]
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