ST. LOUIS — As pressure grows to get artificial colors out of the U.S. food supply, the shift may well start at Abby Tampow's laboratory desk. On an April afternoon, the scientist hovered over tiny dishes of red dye, each a slightly different ruby hue. Her task? To match the synthetic ...
MARQUETTE — Officials and experts in veteran services say they’re concerned about how staffing cuts in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will affect Michigan veterans, especially those living in rural areas. If the VA proceeds in the next 60 days with its recently announced ...
There are a total of 83 counties in the state of Michigan. There are only 15 counties in the Upper Peninsula and all but four of them are on Eastern Standard Time, along with the rest of the state. The four counties in the U.P. that are on the Central Time Zone (Wisconsin Time) are Dickinson, Iron, Gogebic, and Menominee. These are the four counties in the Upper Peninsula with their borders directly in contact with the State of Wisconsin. The Upper Peninsula has about 30 percent of the total land mass of the State of Michigan, and the population of the U.P. is about 300,000 people, and ...
Pain is a common sensation, experienced by most of us at some point in our lives. When the discomfort lasts more than 12 weeks, it is classified as chronic, experienced by about 20 percent of the population. 50 million US citizens live with it…..but how much do we really know about chronic pain? The answer may lie in how well we (don’t) deal with it. Most people when asked will say pain is an undesirable sensation, which is an understandable sentiment. Yet, this is not always the case: pain has numerous functions in the human body. The pain experienced from trauma to our skin is ...
What good is living a long life if it is riddled with disease and disability? And what can you do to age well? These questions are at the center of a new way of thinking about aging: instead of focusing on the number of years a person lives and the prevention of particular diseases—such as heart disease, stroke, or dementia—the attention has shifted to promoting healthy aging with preserved functionality and a high quality of life. Can eating certain food items or adhering to a particular dietary pattern help achieve these goals? In an article published in Nature Medicine on March ...
There is an abundance of unexplained medical conditions in the world, although our understanding has advanced tremendously. There is much we don’t know about the human body and don’t let anyone pretend otherwise. How about an explanation for “Stiff Person Syndrome” or Morgellon’s with the strange skin fibers? We don’t even understand something as common as migraine headaches. Schizophrenia and many disorders of the brain remain a mystery. How about the one where an adolescent suddenly develops pain in the ball of the foot for no reason and without injury? In the disease ...
