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  • spouses club event

    The Keesler Spouses Club plans a wine and tapas tasting, 6:30 p.m. Jan. 11 in the third floor lounge at Bay Breeze Event Center for members and their spouses.Chef Jon Marc Van Zutphen demonstates appetizer preparation techniques and discusses wine pairings. Donnie D'Aquin from E&J Gallo Winery pours

  • Base's holiday blood drive happens Thursday

    The Keesler Blood Donor Center holds a holiday blood drive, 2-6 p.m. Thursday at the Arnold Annex Building on Meadows Drive.Donors are entered into a drawing for two $50 restaurant gift cards and receive blood center coins and T-shirts.For more information, call 376-6100.

  • 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