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Davian Koren is a Fillmore County home school student, one of 15 area students participating in the Journal Writing Project, now in its 26th year.

The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.

Medically reviewed by Elizabeth Barnes, RDN Berberine is a natural compound in flowering plants like barberry, coptis root, and goldenseal. Although berberine has been around for centuries, it has ...

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New bill COVER, lead by Alabama Democrat Shomari Figures, is designed to reach people in states which refuse to extend ...

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

"If you speak with women who have had previous heart attacks, they will often tell you that they had spoken with their doctor ...