ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne hasn't added a U.S. creature to the endangered species list since he took office two years ago. The former Idaho governor has until Thursday to decide on one that could prove troublesome to promising petroleum drilling off Alaska's northern...
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Sharon Kozachik, PhD, RN, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, has been selected as the 2008 Lucille V. Lukens, RN, American Nurses Foundation Scholar. Over the next year, working under the...
Three new research teams have been selected to receive pilot funding from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) Center for Collaborative Intervention Research (CCIR). This year's recipients will focus on MRSA...
WASHINGTON, DC-The decline in construction starts for apartment buildings isn’t as steep as in the single-family home market, but it is nonetheless significant. That’s a 16.5% drop from the 301,000 units in July, and a 24.4%...
Stocks, currencies hit as financial crisis spreads LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- A global rout in equities, including Brazil's 15% intraday slide, left Latin America's benchmarks at multiyear lows and the nerves of investors...