Genetics study aims to link Parkinsons to family ties
In Columbus OSU Medical Center leads PROGENI a five year NIH funded study pairing 400 to 600 siblings to search for genetic and environmental factors behind Parkinsons disease. Sisters Hazel Christensen and Dawn King join methods include questionnaires blood samples and family histories while 30 Ohio families have enrolled. Call 614 688 4049 or 888 830 6299 to participate.
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Dawn King
Ohio State University Medical Center
Jean Hubble
National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence
Osu Medical Center
Columbus Dispatch
National Institutes of Health
North America
OSU
Ohio
Simple ways beat Y2K
Eli Miller an Amish man lights kerosene lamps and keeps a shotgun as midnight arrives. He is not a fearer of Y2K but curious about the fuss, while Amish like him rely on old methods and non electrical comforts. Local Amish business leader Alie Raber notes potential impacts on the community and economy.
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Eli Miller
Miller
Aliee Raber
Cleveland
Raber
Berlin
Holmes County
Conrad Kanagy
Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown
Drought keeps squeezing Ohio farmers across the state
The drought persists in Ohio with insufficient rain and snow to repair dry soils from 1999. Ohio Farm Bureau Federation says farmers need slow, percolating rainfall while some growers irrigate from the Scioto River. Northern counties report healthier conditions with three good years, but southern Ohio remains severe with a wet spring needed.
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Ohio
National Weather Service
Joe Cornely
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Tim Hartsock
Tom Hartsock
Chillicothe
Hartsock Farm
Hartsocks
Scioto
Steve Hess
Urbana
Hess
Internet posts snow closings for Ohio schools
Ohio school districts increasingly use the Internet to announce weather related closures. AccuWeather hosts cancellations dot com listing thousands of districts including 285 in Ohio. Administrators enter notices, ZIP codes or city names help parents locate closures by phone or email alerts.
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Columbus
Ohio
AccuWeather
State College
Jim Candor
Green lights for police and fire with Opticom system
In northeast Ohio cities Eastlake Willoughby and Mentor install Opticom a traffic control system using infrared signals to turn intersections green for emergency vehicles Cutting seconds off response time saves lives while noting occasional green red mismatches when units misconfigure the device The technology is used in Chicago Denver San Diego and several Cleveland suburbs and Columbus test project
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Eastlake
Ohio
Willoughby
Mentor
Steve Sours
Baldwin & Sours
Opticam
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