EDITOR’S NOTE: This material was originally published in The Mining Journal on February 14, 2017. Necessity is the mother of frugality: without the means to live large, one has to live on less, and to own little. But for many, I have noticed, frugality has become a fashionable choice: Some ...

Times are hard for many Americans, many of whom are struggling to pay their bills and put food on the table. And things don’t appear to be returning to the glory days any time soon. The challenge of paying for health insurance and medicine plagues many Americans. A single medical emergency ...

Prepare to be shocked by these revelations about food that will challenge your opinion around its classification. Could tomatoes belong in the fruit aisle, and should cereals be shelved next to canned soups? Find out where you stand in these heated debates about food classification. Do milk ...

First of all, let us again review what the four letters “itis” mean when found on the end of a medical word. These letters, “itis,” always mean inflammation or infection. Further, the four letters “osis” on the end of a medical word just means that something is present. So, the ...

The attention directed at the opioid epidemic has been considerable of late, a consequence of the many deaths and hospitalizations resulting from its abuse. Too often, some injury or surgical procedure necessitates a prescription for pain, treated with one of the many prescription opioids. ...

The scourge to humanity that is heel pain. (Taking some dramatic license here.) But if you want drama, talk to someone in the throes of acute plantar fasciitis, the most common cause of heel or arch pain. Although we don’t have precise data, it is believed that this has been occurring for ...