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Tuesday: Health

Urology Pearls: No time for lifting weights?

In my previous article, two weeks ago, I wrote about the benefits of resistance training (lifting weights, for example). I wrote that resistance training is associated with a 21% lower risk of all-cause mortality, a lower incidence of heart disease and hypertension, and better physical ...

Health Matters: Studies show internet research does not make an expert

These are strange times, a simple statement most folks would agree with. Our coastlines creep inward, potentially displacing millions, as climate change alters the planet’s surface. Human interaction is a dwindling commodity. Americans are on their phones 24 hours a day, plugged into the ...

HIGH SUICIDE RATE WORRIES CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY, WORKERS

MARQUETTE — Mental health problems in a male-dominated industry – construction – are often overlooked, and its workers have disproportionately high suicide rates, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics The agency says the suicide rate among construction workers is four times ...

Urology pearls

At the gym, I see people pulling and pushing. They are lifting dumbbells, barbells, and kettlebells. They do push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups. I look at them with admiration as they look the part, as if they came out of Men’s Health magazine, or have just left the set of an action ...

Health matters

Our healthcare system is in crisis mode. Millions of Americans go through their daily lives without any form of healthcare insurance. Physicians are calling for strikes and pushing to unionize, proposals once considered heretical. Private, for-profit, privately held insurance companies profit ...