Free skin cancer screening is coming to the Tacoma area this month. You must call the appropriate office to scheducle an appointment.
| Kimberly Wenner, MD, FAAD | 253-968-1365 | Dermatology Clinic, Madigan Army Medical Center | Tacoma | WA | By Appointment Only | Monday, May 17, 2010 | |
| Kimberly Wenner, MD, FAAD | 253-968-1365 | Dermatology Clinic Madigan Army Medical Center | Tacoma | WA | By Appointment Only | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
The neuro degenerative brain disease know as Parkinson’s Disease can be temporarily alleviated and even reversed in some patients that exercise on bicycles according to researchers. Dr. Bastiaan R. Bloem of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine on April 1, 2010 on the curious ability of Parkinson’s patients to ride a bike when they cannot even walk.
Two videos accompanying the NEJM article show the man unable to walk without falling and a second video of him riding a bicycle around the parking lot. Dr. Bloem asked 20 other severely affected patients about riding a bike. It turned out that all could do it, though it is not clear why.
A study at the Cleveland Clinic is providing similar results in patients that exercise vigorously on a stationary training bike:
Wooden steamships
Dive teams searching for hazards prior to the Gig Harbor sewer outfall project might encounter the wreck of the steamship Burton laying at the bottom of the harbor. Steamship Burton, part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, steamed the Sound from the early 1900′s until “. . . she was retired and tied up to the “Peoples Wharf” that now services the Tides Tavern. On the night of February 22nd, 1924, she was consumed by fire and was towed out to the center of the harbor so as not to endanger the other boats. There she sank, and still sits today, a fascinating journey into our local maritime history. . .” [1]
The steamship Burton is a popular dive site with boiler, steam engine and deck machinery now harboring marine life. Most of the 97 ton wood hull is gone and the firebricks surrounding the steam boiler are covered in marine life according to the dive website emeraldseaphoto.com The old wooden steamers were painted with volitle paints and sealers. They burned up to 20 cords of wood per day and were floating tinder for fire.
Gig Harbor’s new 2-foot diameter sewer outfall pipe will run along the harbor bottom and extend 9,200 feet to a point beyond the mouth of Gig Harbor bay into the Narrows according to a story in The Peninsula Gateway. Will the construction company find the remains of the old steamship Burton? Will any of it be preserved? The Gig Harbor Times will watch with interest as this project unfolds.
Lost & Found
