ESCANABA — Wellness is an interesting term, thrown about carelessly in the media. But it should carry significance for most adults. It incorporates physical, mental, and social factors, and will aid in providing a sense of well-being. Achieving this state should be the goal of everyone. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two university hospitals are pioneering new ways to expand lifesaving heart transplants for adults and babies — advances that could help recover would-be heart donations that too often go unused. The new research aims to overcome barriers for using organs from someone ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a piece of bread lodged in his windpipe. Precious minutes went by as first ...

American kids have become increasingly unhealthy By The Associated Press The health of U.S. children has deteriorated over the past 17 years, with kids today more likely to have obesity, chronic diseases and mental health problems like depression, a new study says. Much of what researchers ...

The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, with a total of 1,288 cases nationally and another six months to go in 2025. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that the national case count surpassed 2019, when there were 1,274 ...

ESCANABA — The world is full of medical oddities, conditions which defy our understanding. Examples abound, from chronic fatigue syndrome to Charcot joints, many “interesting” diseases can afflict the human body. One of them certainly is Mueller-Weiss Syndrome (MWS) and the collapsing ...