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CPR, first aid classes to be held in Bayfield The Upper Pine River Fire Protection District will offer CPR and first aid classes at the Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Dri...

Mothers provide their children ‘perfect baby food’

August is National Breastfeeding Month

Understanding hormones is key to help women feel happy, healthy

A woman’s reproductive hormones guide her body through the cycles of life. Their main job is to allow us to have children, but they have an effect on every cell in our bodies. Bo...

Easy on the eyes

Optometrists caution against elongated computer, screen use

How does Ebola virus spread – and can it be stopped?

The experts give you answers

Our definition of death is subject to change

I was a medical student when I first saw someone die. A middle-aged woman lay in the intensive-care unit surrounded by machinery that recorded her heartbeat, measured her blood pr...

Gene map unravels mental illness

Immune system connected to schizophrenia

Weather killed thousands in 5-year period

Cold, hypothermia took largest percentage

Don’t get burned: Simple measures can save your skin

Can you guess what is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States? It is skin cancer, with 5 million Americans treated each year. Treatment for skin cancer accounts ...

Hold that handshake: Fist bumps are less germy

Could hospitals, doctors adopt this greeting as new standard?

The relentless toll

Disease leaves wife as a full-time caretaker of her husband

U.S. Alzheimer’s rate seems to be dropping

The rate of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is falling in the United States and some other rich countries – good news about an epidemic that is still growing simply because more peop...
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