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Volunteers come out in droves

Starting at 9 a.m., volunteers from United Way of Jackson County and parents from the school constructed a new brick patio, linked up the pieces of a playground dome, pulled weeds and sanded new picnic ...
A comedic performance true to Neil Simons vision

"Forty-five Seconds from Broadway" doesn't have a plot, and maybe it doesn't need one. It's as if playwright Neil Simon thought up a bunch of subplots without coming up with a main one but didn't let that stop him. The glue that holds the lighthearted, episodic comedy together is Simon's affection for his ...
Central Point faction pushing for School Board write-in candidates

CENTRAL POINT — A newly formed parent group is hoping to garner enough last-minute votes to land two write-in candidates on the Central Point School District 6 board after Tuesday's ...
Providence breast center offers testing for rare gene mutation

Movie star Angelina Jolie made headlines — and fueled a national discussion — last week with her announcement that she had a double-mastectomy to prevent breast cancer because she carried a gene associated with the ...
Police Kidnapped woman assaulted for days in local hotel

A man with two out-of-state warrants for his arrest allegedly kidnapped a woman and assaulted her multiple times in a Medford hotel room, police ...

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Slugs [DVD]

"They slime. They ooze. They kill." No matter how bad the movie is, is it possible to completely detest a movie with a tag line like that? ...

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Acorn woodpeckers have odd but strangely familiar rivalries

The acorn woodpeckers living in the maple that stretches above my house flew around squawking something that sounded like, "carrot! carrot!" Once they got over their outrage and grief (ah, dreadful anthropomorphism!), they set about creating a new nest ...
Film training will focus on issues for aging gays

The Rogue Valley Council of Governments Senior and Disability Services and Oregon AARP will present the documentary film "Gen Silent" at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at the Smullin Center on the Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center campus in ...
FBI searches Spokane Wash. apartment in ricin letters case

SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ...
Learn about container gardens on Tuesday

Master Gardener Sue Amatangelo will talk about creating and caring for container gardens at 3 and 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, at the south Medford Grange Co-op, 2531 S. Pacific ...
Recycle old batteries for free

In a recent column, you discussed disposal of electronic equipment and mentioned in passing that batteries were not good for landfills. How does one properly dispose of batteries (for hearing aids, remotes, CD players, radios, clocks, ...

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New Malaria Drug Shows Promise in Animal Tests

ST. LOUIS, MO U.S. researchers have developed a new fast-acting drug against malaria that appears to avoid the problem with current medicines, which often lose their effectiveness against increasingly drug-resistant strains of malaria parasites, called Plasmodium.

Scientists say the new malaria medicine may have a decisive edge against this persistent tropical-world killer.

Michael Riscoe of Oregon Health and Science University, in the U.S. Northwest, says the new drug, known as ELQ-300, targets the mitochondria -- energy-producing structures in the parasite's cells -- and the DNA building blocks they produce.

A chemical model of ELQ-300. (Image courtesy of Michael Riscoe) x A chemical model of ELQ-300. (Image courtesy of Michael Riscoe) "So the Plasmodium mitochondrion serves as a factory to make these DNA building blocks, but this is completely blocked by ELQ-300," explains Riscoe. "Studies show that the drug acts very quickly to shut down this process. In fact, (in) only about 10 minutes.rdquo;

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in the fight against malaria, Riscoe adds, is the Plasmodium parasite's ability to mutate and develop resistance to each new drug used against the disease. ...