Feb. 20, 2012
- National Public Radio's Weekend Edition reported on the training for doctors who take care of injured soldiers. At Cincinnati's University Hospital doctors are trained with simulations at Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills
- Mike Mullins, executive director of the Hindman Settlement School, died Sunday night af a heart attack, according to the school's Web site. Arrangements for services are not set. Mullins had been director of the school since 1977. The Herald-Leader profiled Mullins in 1990.
- The Daily Mail of London continues its fascination with Kentucky oddities, this time reporting on Kentucky's blue people.
Family descendents of a French orphan named Martin Fugate, who moved to Eastern Kentucky for free land, had blue skin because of a genetic condition called methemoglobinemia, or ‘met-H.' The genetic combination reduces someone’s ability to carry oxygen in the blood, leaving it darker than the color typically found in veins and giving skin a blue cast.
