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Tuesday: Health

Health Matters: The mysterious sinus tarsi syndrome

Life is full of hazards, be they emotional or be they physical. Depending on the location, a variety of complications can result from an injury, even one that is seemingly mild. Tweak a knee joint, or twist an ankle, and damage can occur to one of the vital structures composing these complex ...

Healthy fruits and snacks

As we enter into our great Upper Peninsula summer season, we will all soon be blessed with increased availability of healthy fresh fruits. Let me again review for you the nutritional makeup of various fruits so are aware of the amount of sugar and fiber in these fruits. I favor and recommend ...

Great Lakes beachcombers are finding mostly plastic

MARQUETTE — Most of the litter on Great Lakes beaches is plastic, according to a 20-year study released Thursday. The study, spanning 2003 to 2023, is based on trash collected during the Adopt-a-Beach volunteer clean-up program organized by the Alliance for the Great Lakes, a nonprofit ...

Urology pearls

Spoiler alert: by the end of this article you may not necessarily have a definite answer. I promise you, though, that you will gain new insight into how scientists and doctors answer such questions. This understanding is important because when people make decisions about their health, they ...

Health matters

The internet has radically transformed society, and in ways that were not entirely predictable. Along with being able to purchase items from all over the world with a simple keystroke, information of all manner, on every topic imaginable, is similarly available. Unfortunately, the veracity of ...

IN PURSUIT OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

MARTQUETTE — It was about this time one year ago that Yan Ciupak, associate professor of sociology at NMU, visited India for almost five weeks. She studied and experienced the yoga capital of the world, Rishikesh, and also collected data for her research project on the Buddhist Nun ...