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To your good health

DEAR DR. ROACH: I read that there is updated advice on who should get the COVID vaccine based on age and risk factors. How many Americans were hospitalized for COVID who did not have these latest qualifying risk factors? — N.R. ANSWER: Although the most recent update on the licensing of the ...

Dear Annie

Dear Annie: My husband and I have a 3-year-old daughter, and we're trying to raise her with structure — regular bedtime, limited screen time and no sweets before meals. The problem is my mother-in-law. She watches our daughter twice a week, and despite repeated conversations, she ignores ...

To your good health

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 78-year-old male who is in pretty good health. I keep my blood pressure under control and exercise five days a week at a gym, doing 30 minutes of cardio and lifting light weights. However, I have osteoporosis. As I have declined to take medications such as Fosamax due to ...

Dear Annie

Dear Annie: My best friend, "Cara," has been dating a guy for about six months who, frankly, none of our friends can stand. He talks over her constantly, makes inappropriate jokes, and once made a rude comment about her weight right in front of us. She brushed it off like it was nothing, but I ...

Checking on the young (walleye)

Planning to be on the water this fall? Be on the lookout for Michigan Department of Natural Resources personnel conducting nighttime walleye recruitment surveys from late September to mid-October. These surveys are an important tool for fisheries managers to determine whether walleye that ...

A cause for concern

LANSING — With the state budget still in the discussion phase, each branch of state government has presented its version of a budget. The Michigan House’s version makes cuts in spending, and the chief of the DNR's Fisheries Division, Randy Claramunt, has concerns as to how budget cuts could ...