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Your pancreas plays a vital role in your health

I once heard a prominent surgeon begin a presentation with the quip that all he had learned in surgical training could be summed up with the advice to (surgically) “stay away from the pancre...

Working & moving

Treadmill, stand-up desks are healthier options

Health Briefs

Free class to focus on stress reduction A free, introductory class about Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Studio 10 of the Smiley Buil...

Changing its role, not its rationale

Healthy Lifestyle La Plata is in transition

The advantage of age

Diana Nyad says maturity, experience key in completing record Cuba-to-Florida swim

Researchers show gut microbes might be useful in fighting fat

WASHINGTON – Call it a hidden ally: The right germs just might be able to help fight fat. Different kinds of bacteria that live inside the gut can help spur obesity or protect aga...

What’s proper burial for an aborted fetus?

Medical examiners have to decide the cause and manner of death when somebody dies under their jurisdiction. That’s not all they have to decide. Sometimes, they have to decide wh...

Some flu vaccines working overtime

Treatments now target certain specific populations

Helping hands

Urgent-care centers handling more traffic, offer relief for over-stressed emergency rooms

Expo to take holistic approach

90 exhibits scheduled at local fairgrounds for event’s 18th year

Students skip veggies, schools dump lunches

Program falters when kids refuse to eat

Kids courting serious trouble when they huff

School is well underway, so here’s a pop quiz – for you parents. What is most commonly the first drug of abuse among children and adolescents. Alcohol? Not quite. Marijuana? Think...
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