(AP) - Greyson Parisien’s time on earth was short. But the boy with dark-rimmed eyeglasses who was enchanted by the music in “Frozen,” the sound of ripping paper and his dad playing the guitar is having an outsized impact on his tribal community in the far reaches of North Dakota. His ...
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 81-year-old nursing home resident Bartley O’Hara, who said he is “vaccinated up to the eyeballs” and tracks coronavirus hospital trends as they “zoom up” for older adults, but remain flat for younger folks. “The sense of urgency is not universal,” said O’Hara of Washington, D.C. But ...
Are habit-based interventions beneficial in long-term weight maintenance? Two weeks ago, I wrote here about a 2019 study by Dr. Gina Cleo and her colleagues published in the International Journal of Obesity that attempted to answer this question. The researchers randomly divided the ...
Born into this world, we live our lives, all of us destined to shuffle off this mortal coil. To put it bluntly, we are born to die. In simplistic terms, aging is a time-dependent decline in function, whether it is a cell, a tissue, or the entire organism. But when that final chapter arrives is ...
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 ...
