MARQUETTE — “How do I give myself the best chance of staying healthy?” Since the rise of COVID-19 two years ago, everybody has had a renewed focus on the topic of health. It’s a daily discussion in the media, in the chambers of Congress and in doctor’s offices around the world. ...
A famous television program from long ago portrayed a military man, repaired with all manner of artificial body parts after being badly injured in the line of duty. These high-tech replacement parts allowed him to perform extraordinary feats. The hardware implanted into his body apparently ...
As we are now well into our Upper Peninsula winter weather, I would like to again review the facts about frostbite that we all need to know, and to take appropriate measures to prevent frostbite. It is very important to minimize skin exposure when we are out in very cold winter weather, to ...
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s contentious approval of a questionable Alzheimer’s drug took another hit Thursday as congressional investigators called the process “rife with irregularities.” The 18-month investigation by two House committees detailed “atypical collaboration” between FDA regulators and a company it’s supposed to oversee -- Aduhelm manufacturer Biogen. The probe also cited Biogen documents saying the company intended to “make history” when it set what investigators called an “unjustifiably high” initial price of $56,000 a year for ...
Editor’s note: This material is presented using a first-person method. MARQUETTE — I spent last Saturday evening the same way that many others did—in a heightened state of stress and anxiety. For over three hours, I paced back and forth, I bit my fingernails and ate far too much greasy ...
Not all diets are designed with the goal of weight loss in mind. Some diets aim at preventing this or that ailment, other diets attempt to improve individuals’ quality of life, or to extend life. What if you could obtain more goals than merely losing weight by using a single, highly ...
