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Air Force bombers aren’t flying over the Grand Forks Air Force Base anymore, but a buzz is being created by drones, say backers of the first unmanned aircraft business park in the US. The Grand Sky grounds will start witnessing the construction during May.

U.S.-based and international companies have already started applying for position in the 1.2 million-square-foot park, which is near the former alert pad where bombers and tankers were poised for takeoff on a moment's notice.

Testing of unmanned aircraft in North Dakota makes it one of six sites to do so. Research is on to develop drones for a wide range of applications, like farming, law enforcement, energy, infrastructure management, public safety, coastal security, military training, search and rescue and disaster response.

On Sunday morning, a move to transport 100 bison to a new home started at the Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage.

Over the next few days, the bison will be placed in specially made crates at the center and then they will be flown to the village of Shageluk in Western Alaska. There was a time when these animals used to freely roam in Alaska, but 150 years back, they became extinct, said the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Cathie Harms.

Now, an effort is being made to bring them back that were present in the state for thousands of years. “And the really exciting thing is, in the United States, this is the last big species we lost in the 1800s that we can bring back. And it’s pretty cool from a conservation project standpoint”, said Harms.

A new study has found that number of cases of diabetes identified among poor Americans have increased in the states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The numbers have not surged in states that did not embrace ACA, as per the study.

The study also suggested that the health care law could be helping many people get earlier treatment for diseases that are among the country’s costliest medical conditions.

According to reports, one in ten people in the United States have diabetes, and about one third of the diabetes cases have not been diagnosed. According to medical experts, it is important to treat the disease as it could cause heart attacks, blindness, kidney failure and foot amputations if not treated at time.

A new study has revealed that breast cancer patients of different races and ethnicities may not pick surgeons and hospitals in the same way.

As per the study Black and Hispanic women were less likely to make choices factoring doctor and hospital’s reputation as compared to White women.

Researchers for the study, whose findings were published in JAMA Oncology, involved 222 White women, 142 Black women and 136 Hispanics women. All these women were diagnosed with breast cancer between 2010 and 2011.

The study showed that the most common reason for selecting a particular doctor was reference by someone. But researchers also found that minority patients were less likely to factor reputation of hospital or doctor.

According to the World Health Organization, the herbicide glyphosate probably leads to cancer. The herbicide is usually sold under brand name Roundup by Monsanto. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer included the most glyphosate to its Group 2A list as ‘possibly carcinogenic’ to humans.

Monsanto, a publicly traded multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation, produces Roundup. The organization was not happy with the finding; it even criticized the matter. The organization said that all labeled uses of glyphosate cause no harm to human health. It also said that one of the largest human health databases also supports the safety claims related to the herbicide.

According to a presentation from the president of the American Medical Association (AMA), the association is still working on issues that affect dermatologists and other physicians. Steven J. Stack, MD, an emergency department physician practicing in Lexington, said that medical advances have been happening at the same time when there are interruptions in the doctor-patient relationship. It means that is the best of times and worst of times, as per Stack.