April has been designated as Oral Cancer Awareness Month. Let us now briefly review oral cancer and its causes, symptoms and treatment programs. The primary source of the following information is from a review of oral cancers in the U.S. from our United States National Institutes of Health. ...
LANSING — Michigan expanded Medicaid coverage for new mothers after they give birth from two months to 12 months in April 2022, a key component of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies initiative. The effort strove to reduce illness and death rates by giving new mothers ...
The future is now: the technologies of today were the stuff of sci-fi novels a few years ago. Artificial limbs controlled with a thought, genetically modified pigs bred for organ transplantation into humans, and self-driving cars, all these amazing advances, and many others, are part of our ...
PHILADELPHIA — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame. As upsetting as that notification was, it also ...
Do opposites attract or do birds of a feather flock together? The idea that opposites attract is appealing. It is romantic. It is rooted in familiar love stories: Cinderella, Pretty Woman, and The Beauty and The Beast, just to name a few. It is a comforting idea: the less fortunate people can ...
Robert, today’s protagonist, was an active fellow and enjoyed many local sports, from mountain biking to trail running. The latter was his primary passion, leading to entering and running several marathons some years back. But work demands had prevented this for too many years and Robert had ...