Opinion

Gift appreciated

To the Editor: I would like to make the Gladwin community aware of something special about some of your high school kids. My grandson, Jimmy, is fighting a rare form of cancer. I have worked with kids for most of my life in Midland, the last 36 as a principal.
NAC supplement helps curb cravings to smoke

NAC supplement helps curb cravings to smoke

NAC supplement helps curb cravings to smoke

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’d like to have your thoughts on what value the NAC supplement may have in reducing cravings for marijuana or nicotine? I’m 73 and have been smoking marijuana daily since I was 21. Now I’m quitting for health reasons.
MOMENTS IN TIME

MOMENTS IN TIME

MOMENTS IN TIME

On April 1, 1999, David Smith was arrested and charged with originating the “Melissa” email virus, which infected more than a million computers worldwide and caused more than $80 million in damage.

How will we be led?

To the Editor: Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” He had to contend with but a monarch, King George III, not an autocrat. Nowadays, it seems autocracy is perhaps fashionable within some spheres, mainly the Republican Party.
Statins and thiazides acutely increase blood sugar, risk of diabetes

Statins and thiazides acutely increase blood sugar, risk of diabetes

Statins and thiazides acutely increase blood sugar, risk of diabetes

DEAR DR. ROACH: My question regards the results of my fasting glucose tests for the past couple of years. I am 81 and weigh around 150 pounds. The medications I am taking concern me, with relevance to the A1C levels of my quarterly blood work.

My Jimmy Carter Story

To the Editor: Hearing that former President Jimmy Carter is near the end of life in hospice care, I recalled one of my favorite memories of an encounter with Carter in 1996.