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  • Not letting bedbugs bite becoming harder to do

    For children, bedbugs are as creepy as the boogey man, but the thought of tiny insects crawling in and out of mattresses and sucking blood in the middle of the night is enough to give adults goose bumps, too.Bedbugs look like apple seeds and are small, nocturnal parasites that that usually live

  • Keesler has DOD's busiest cardiac cath lab

    The 81st Medical Group Hospital's cardiac catheterization laboratory team treats more patients annually than any other medical facility in the Department of Defense.Led by Lt. Col. (Dr.) Steven Kindsvater, 81st Medical Operations Squadron cardiovascular services chief, the 19 medical professionals

  • Flight medicine expands services

    Jan. 3, the 81st Aerospace Medicine Squadron flight medicine clinic expands its services with changes being made to sick call and normal duty hours.Sick call will be offered to all active-duty flying, special operational duty personnel and air traffic control students 7-8 a.m. Monday-Friday.The

  • Teamwork helps heart patient

    It wasn't post-Thanksgiving indigestion. The patient, who prefers to remain anonymous, woke up a little after 1 a.m. Nov. 26 with tightness in his chest. This, coupled with vomiting, caused him to realize he was suffering a heart attack."Being a 'diehard Air Force guy,' I got into my truck and 45

  • I-110 bridge repairs affect traffic for four months

    Commuters who use I-110 to get to and from the base should find an alternate route for the first few months of 2011,A project to replace the steel grid deck in the center of the I-110 bridge starts the first week of January and should take about 14 weeks."Sometimes the traffic will be restricted to

  • 4 selected for promotion this month

    Four Keesler enlisted members have been selected for promotion in December.To staff sergeant--Senior Airmen Marcus Easterling, 81st Dental Squadron, and Noah Erdman, formerly of the 338th Training Squadron.To technical sergeant -- Staff Sgt. Scott Ross, 334th TRS.To master sergeant -- Tech. Sgt.