Tom Nolan

At “From Monterey to the Moon,” NASA astronaut and Navy Captain Victor Glover, 50, spoke to a crowd of about 1,300 N

At “From Monterey to the Moon,” NASA astronaut and Navy Captain Victor Glover, 50, spoke to a crowd of about 1,300 Naval Postgraduate School students and their families – a nearly full house in the campus’s spacious King Hall. The audience …

MONTEREY – More than 4,000 are expected to march through downtown Monterey this Saturday, in what organizers think will turn out to be the largest local Pride celebration to date.

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s researchCarbocisteine and hypertonic saline are often used to treat critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure and difficult to clear secretions. A major randomised controlled trial sombrely concludes that neither intervention reduced the duration of mechanical ventilation, and each was associated with harm. In the study,1956 participants were randomised to carbocisteine (750 mg three times daily, enterally), nebulised hypertonic saline (4 ml four times daily), both, or usual care. Clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding occurred in 1.4% of participants given carbocisteine, versus 0.2% of control participants (risk ratio 6.51, 95% confidence interval 1.47 to 28.76). Those given hypertonic saline more often had bronchoconstriction leading to bronchodilator use (2.4% v 0.4%, risk ratio 5.73; 95% CI …

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MONTEREY — When Maura Leos first started making phone calls for Montage Health, she worried people would mistake her for a telemarketer.

Plus Tiffany Hanssen’s “My Name Was Gerry Sass” and Alessandra Ranelli’s “Murder at the Hotel Orient.”

Dennis Knuckleyard returns in “I Hear a New World” (Bloomsbury, 336 pages, $30) , the latest entry in Alan Moore's series featuring two versions of London: one real, the other fantastical.

CARMEL – Several hundred local authors and readers are expected to attend Saturday's Carmel Book Festival, a revival of last year's Author Faire that the Carmel Chamber of Commerce plans to host annually.

MONTEREY – Monterey Adult School has launched its first-ever commercial drone training courses this summer, with plans to incorporate the program into regular instruction going forward.