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Tuesday: Health

Talk With the Doc: Creation of highway center lines by Mr. K. I. Sawyer

One of the most significant contributions ever made to automobile travel safety was made right here in our great Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I am sure that many of you know that Mr. Kenneth I. Sawyer (most often referred to as K. I. Sawyer) was the first person in the United States to ...

Urology Pearls: The future of medicine in Vegas — toilet seats and lasers

By DR. SHAHAR MADJAR Several weeks ago, I wrote here about my visit to the American Urological Association meeting in Las Vegas. I told you about The Strip and the interesting people I had seen along it. I promised to write again about an entirely different world—the one inside the urology ...

Health Matters: Bad body mechanics lead to bunions

By DR. CONWAY MCLEAN Do your feet hurt? They are supposed to, aren’t they? When asked, most Americans would say it’s normal, to be expected. And there are a multitude of reasons for pain from this region of the body, especially when some bony deformity has developed, leading to shoe fit ...

Salmonella outbreak tied to eggs sickens dozens across 7 states

The Associated Press A salmonella outbreak linked to a large egg recall has made dozens of people sick in seven states in the West and Midwest, federal health officials said Saturday. The August Egg Company recalled about 1.7 million brown organic and brown cage-free egg varieties ...

Health Matters: Dehydration dangerous with diabetes

The rise in diabetes, a disease of excess blood sugar, has been dramatic over the last century. Prior to that, it was relatively unheard of and quite a rarity. Only the rich were able to ingest sweet, sugary foods and did so only occasionally. Nowadays it’s put into everything, from salad ...