Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations. These alarming signs portend a difficult winter for seniors, which worries ...

By ABIGAIL COMAR Special to the Journal MARQUETTE — A new study has demonstrated how an advisory program designed for the Anishinaabe is a useful tool for tracking fish consumption in Great Lakes tribes.  The research collaboration among the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan and the ...

We are now into our wonderful busy holiday season, having just celebrated our Thanksgiving Holiday on the last Thursday of November. We are now all getting ready for our special Christmas and New Year celebrations in a very short time. This is a very busy time of year and this can certainly ...

Lower extremity amputations are a tremendous source of illness, disability, and death for Americans living with diabetes. And these debilitating events aren’t a rarity, with a limb lost to diabetes globally every 20 seconds. The three most important factors in this are an impaired immune ...

No doubt you are familiar with Father Time and the ticking of the clock which signals the advancing years. The human condition requires the endurance of this passage through time and its consequences to our physical body. Early on, this passage brings growth through the vitality of youth, but ...

A year after omicron began its assault on humanity, the ever-morphing coronavirus mutant drove COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just as Americans gathered for Thanksgiving. It was a prelude to a wave that experts expect to soon wash over the U.S. Phoenix-area emergency physician Dr. ...