HOUGHTON — Health care providers are facing rapid change and challenges, with many going under or merging with other entities. Brian Sinotte, CEO of UP Health System – Marquette, gave an overview of some of the struggles facing hospitals to the Upper Peninsula Economic Development ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following information is collected from Marquette City Police Department dispatch log books recorded at the time the calls were received. The incidents reported may have proven to be unfounded once police investigated. Some log entries may be edited or omitted due to space ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. 30 years ago ISHPEMING — Area Cleveland Cliffs Inc. employees are getting an early Christmas present to the tune of about $2,000 apiece. CCI announced plans Tuesday ...
Concert to be held from 4-7 p.m. MARQUETTE — A brief published in Thursday’s edition of The Mining Journal contained inaccurate information about a concert to benefit veterans. The concert will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ishpeming VFW Post 4573.
NMU seeks community input MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University is seeking community input on its campus master plan, which will provide a guide for future physical changes on campus. NMU recorded a recent campus forum where alternatives surrounding seven planning themes were ...
State average: $2.83 $2.99 Munising (Holiday) $2.98 Hancock (Holiday) $2.91 Harvey (Holiday) $2.91 Negaunee (Holiday) $2.87 Sault Ste. Marie (Krist Oil) $2.85 Marquette (Krist Oil) $2.82 Iron Mounrain (Krist Oil) $2.79 Ishpeming (Elaine’s) $2.75 Escanaba (Holiday) $2.58 Baraga ...
By GARRETT NEESE Houghton Daily Mining Gazette CALUMET — More than 50 years ago, Charlsie Antikainen bought a metal POW/MIA bracelet to commemorate her friend Marshall Kipina. Thursday morning, at Kipina’s gravestone at Lake View Cemetery in Calumet, she was able to put it to ...
By Journal staff MARQUETTE — UP Health System-Marquette recently received a renewed accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, after initially receiving the accreditation in 2012. “The NAPBC focus is to provide the best up-to-date treatment for patients ...
MARQUETTE — October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, although most people probably are aware of the disease 365 days a year. “Breast cancer is quite mainstream, and it’s all over the media,” said Dr. Sheetal Acharya, who specializes in cancer care at UP Health System-Marquette. ...
By MetroCreative Chemotherapy and radiation are common treatment options for people who have been diagnosed with cancer. While radiation may be targeted at specific areas, chemotherapy is systemic. This means it affects the entire body. As a result, as chemotherapy kills fast-growing cancer ...
By MetroCreative Cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy can take a toll on patients’ bodies. Fatigue, bruising and bleeding and skin irritation are some of the more common short-term side effects associated with cancer treatments. But cancer patients may also experience ...
By MetroCreative People concerned about their cancer risk may find that switching their diets can do a world of good. Certain foods may reduce cancer risk, according to various cancer experts, including the MD Anderson Cancer Center. In addition, some foods might increase a person’s risk of ...
By MetroCreative Few, if any, families have not been affected by cancer. While no individual or family is immune to cancer, some families may be more at risk of developing certain types of cancer than others. In many instances, cancers that run in families can be linked to behaviors that ...
By MetroCreative The day a person is diagnosed with cancer is a life-altering moment. Many people rely on support networks made up of family and friends to help them during their cancer treatments, and such support networks can extend to patients’ choice of oncologists as well. Oncology ...
MARQUETTE — The Heath M. Robinson Memorial Cut River Bridge on U.S. 2 in Mackinac County is expected to reopen to traffic on Thursday, depending on weather. The bridge is currently under a detour during the ongoing $4.8 million Michigan Department of Transportation repair project. Crews ...
MUNISING — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has scheduled October public meetings to solicit public input on various natural resources management and outdoor recreation opportunities. The next local meeting is the Eastern Upper Peninsula Citizens’ Advisory Council, to be held ...
Mallory Delmont and Seth Aho were named Gwinn High School’s homecoming queen and king Friday afternoon. (Photo courtesy of the Aho family)
By Iron Mountain Daily News Staff IRON MOUNTAIN — Two Dickinson County Healthcare System employee unions today called for hospital administrator and CEO John Schon to resign or be fired. The call comes as the hospital heads toward a Chapter 11 bankruptcy after two potential buyers pulled ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The goal is to maintain full services at Dickinson County Healthcare System and eventually satisfy all financial obligations, including pensions, even as the hospital flirts with insolvency. Whether all of that can be achieved and closure bypassed is anyone’s guess, but ...
CRYSTAL FALLS — An Iron River man was arraigned Tuesday in Iron County Trial Court on methamphetamine and heroin charges after an Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team bust last week. Sheldon Shawn-Douglas Cava, 36, faces two counts of delivery of methamphetamine, a 20-year-felony; ...