Influenza activity remained high in the U.S. South and South Central states for the week ending Jan. 4, but remains low in the Northeast, officials say. The weekly flu report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu ...
PATTERSON-UTI ENERGY, INC. (NASDAQ: PTEN) today reported that for the month of December 2013, the Company had an average of 187 drilling rigs operating in the United States and 9 rigs in Canada. Average drilling rigs operating reported ...
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Bob Baddeley and Brad Zdroik have invented and are marketing BlueTipz, a wireless transmitter that sends an alert to your smartphone when you have a fish on your ice fishing tip-up. A tip-up is a piece of equipment that's placed across an ...
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Between 1965 and 2004, the distribution of states with the highest mortality changed dramatically. In 1965, the states with the highest mortality (Rhode Island, Alaska, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire) were spread across ...
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The U.S. government announced six states on Monday that will develop test sites for drones, a critical next step for the march of the unmanned aircraft into American skies. Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia will ...
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For the week ending Dec. 21, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas reported high flu activity, but in most of the country flu was low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the proportion of ...
More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of ...
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For the week ending Dec. 14, U.S. influenza increased nationwide, but Texas was hard hit with more than a dozen critically ill and six dead, officials say. The influenza strain H1N1 -- the same strain that caused the 2009 pandemic -- ...
Fifteen years after the $246 billion tobacco legal settlements were reached most states are not spending much on tobacco cessation, U.S. researchers say. Tobacco use is the top cause of preventable U.S. death, killing more than 400,000 ...
Julius M. Feinblum Real Estate has become a member and joined the board of Realty Resources Network, a national real estate networking organization comprised of more than 25 independent retail real estate brokerage firms across the country. ...
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US construction employment increased in 39 states over the past 12 months, the most widespread gains since April 2012, according to an analysis released today by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data. ...
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Monday, Nov 25, 2013 The largest oilfield in the USA south of Canada is said to be the East Texas Oilfield. (The largest oilfield in the USA is Prudho Bay in Alaska).Since I began my research on oil in 2003 my mental image of the East Texas ...
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For the week of Nov. 9, U.S. flu activity was low but increasing in the South, with the first two influenza-related pediatric deaths, health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the proportion of people ...
For the week ending Nov. 2, U.S. influenza activity remained low, but Mississippi reported moderate activity, federal health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said of 4,118 specimens tested 4.9 percent tested ...
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The Yukon, one of Canada's northern territories, hopes Chinese investors will invest in its rich but underdeveloped mining sector, a local official said. Murray Arsenault, the Yukon Territory's deputy economic development minister, told ...
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