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Mans body found in Willamette River

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A man's body was discovered Wednesday afternoon floating in the Willamette River just south of the St. Johns Bridge, sheriff's deputies said. A Multnomah County Sheriff's Office's river patrol boat was stopped at 12:45 p.m. by some U.S. Army Corps of Engineers workers, who saw the body floating down the river. River patrol deputies then recovered the body ...
Documents shed more light on Oregons NCAA investigation

Oregon coach Chip Kelly talks with his players during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Oregon State in Corvallis, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012.(AP Photo/Don ...
Portlanders to see slight decrease in garbage recycling rates

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland City Council on Wednesday approved a rate decrease for residential garbage and recycling customers in Portland. Residents will see an average decrease of about 1 percent on their monthly garbage bills starting July 1, according to a news release from the Bureau of Planning and ...
47 indicted in Klamath methamphetamine raids

The indictments handed up Tuesday show 28 people indicted on racketeering charges, which allege they were part of a criminal enterprise dating to last October that was devoted to selling ...
Power surge causes loss of electricity in Sherwood

Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue says it got a report at 12:22 p.m. of an electrical meter blown off a Sherwood home. Soon, emergency dispatchers received numerous calls about blown meters and power outages stretching from Sherwood to King ...

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Biden in Conn. Coast Guard faces growing demands

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden told graduating cadets Wednesday at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that the nation will increasingly rely on the service for missions including more remote Arctic operations and fighting maritime crime alongside the U.S. ...
Portland Oregon rejects drinking water fluoridation by wide margin

water fluoridation . The treatment of drinking water with trace amounts of fluorine has a clear, positive effect in preventing tooth decay, and extensive studies (including some cases where water sources are naturally high in fluorine) have indicated that the levels used in water supplies have no adverse affects on health. But amidst talk that wouldn't seem entirely out of place ...
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell visiting Portland

PORTLAND, Ore. — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is visiting Portland this week for what will be her first West Coast trip since she was sworn in last month. The Department of the Interior says Jewell and Portland Mayor Charlie Hales on Thursday will announce nearly two dozen conservation projects to help boost youth employment. On Friday, she, Gov. John Kitzhaber and a representative ...
VIDEO Oregon Police Beat And Tazer Defenseless Man

McMinnville, Oregon Police brutally assaulted a man who was neither being arrested nor accused of any crime, according to dashboard camera footage and an internal police ...
Ore. school boards say 4 local option levies OKd

The association says schools have gotten a smaller percentage of the state's general fund and lottery budget over the past decade, and the results Tuesday were part of a favorable trend among local voters responding to school money ...

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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. ...