Ahead and grabbed an orange, pretending it was a patients skin, and we walked through and taught all our emts to draw their own medications. Dave Courvoisier cary turner devised a kit with a small vial of the drug epinephrine and a syringe to replace the pens. Now, all emts in their division carry the kits to calls just in case. Turner says the cost savings have been passed on to patients and the department. Denise Valdez heres a back to schl attention. A North Carolina teacher says shes found that assigning no homework is a more successful teaching tool than assigning homework every night. So Amanda Robertson has done away with it. The fourth grade teacher assigned homework every night for seven years. But found that it was actually hurting students. Thats when she made the switch and saw immediate results Amanda Robertson 4th grade teacher their proficiency scores and their growth scores, you know, our end of grade tests and Everything Everything kind of all skyrocketed last year. ti
Football sleeper from jackin thebox . Tim based on last year torrey smith would be a sleeper i dont think anybody is thinking about mcdonald at tight end. I dont think people are expecting the offense to do this based on the first three season not expecting them to have a huge breakout your. Vance mcdonald very capable of a big time breakout year. He would be my guy. Ted has caught 40 passes 23 after gabbard took over as quarterback last year. Maybe a little bit past halfway. Tim i could see him i could see him getting 5foot he can block, run after the catch, drops early in his career and i think part of it is he wants it so bad, trying so hard, gets robotic in the open field. Bigger, stronger, faster. Sixth grade football you will have success. That mentality. Just relax. Ted the punter Peter Mortell free agent for minnesota trying to win a job as he hangs one up. Apologize for the audio problem there. Ball down at the ten. We saw packers marquise williams from north carolina. So we w
Lifesaving medicine more affordable. The battle that could be coming soon for smokers in Johnson County. In the education level for state employees. Welcome to cbs 2 this morning. This is i83 where it crosses i 65. It is dark at 6 00 but the sun is poking up over the horizon and there are no problems to report so far on this Tuesday Morning. Welcome to cbs 2 this morning. I am kevin barry. I am there are lighter showers moving through the forecast, but we will keep an eye on the sky for possibility of heavier showers as the humidity continues to build. Lets look at the numbers. 74 at 10 to gert a 10 00 this morning. The super whopper 3d doppler shows a little bit of moisture just off to the east by the toward muscatine county. Here in cedar rapids, we are cloudy and muggy and we have had rain, but we are drying out. It is 69 right now. Visibility is 2 miles at decorah. Dubuque to monticello, a little fog. Sarah be a check city and 68 at monticello and 71 and iowa city. The wind is out
After intense pressure from the public and lawmakers, the drug Company Mylan has now caved on the cost of the epipen. Epipen. The life saving shot will now also come in a generic brand. Brand. The cost of emergency shot during an allergic reaction has ballooned in recent years its right now more than 6 hundred dollars. The announcement means a generic version would cost about half as much as the current price. While the Company Works on that, some First Responders say theyve managed to find an even cheaper solution. All our emts to draw their own medications. The cost savings has bled over to our patients, and also to our depar department. Other companies are also looking for new technologies to compete against the epipen shot in the open market. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley is among the lawmakers pushing for the chang. Change. In a statement, senator grassley said quote this sounds like good news but the details are important to know. Grassley says he will continue to work with the foo
By MATTHEW M. BURKE | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 4, 2013 KOH TANG, Cambodia Monsoon rains and fearsome waves pound Koh Tang, as they have since the last battle of the Vietnam War nearly 38 years ago. The earth gives away on the island’s west beach, revealing a bit of cloth and a zipper. They could be leftovers from one of the 10 excavations carried out by Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command investigators; holes they have dug sit nearby. Or they could be remnants of the American troops who died during one of America’s greatest wartime failures in Southeast Asia. Isolated by the rough waters in the Gulf of Thailand about 60 nautical miles from mainland Cambodia, Koh Tang has kept its secrets well, including what happened to at least three Marines who were likely executed after being left behind in the chaos of fierce battles that killed 38 servicemembers from the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force in less than 24 hours.