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From Belle Isle to Eight Mile, a wide range of events took place across the city to mark the 16th annual ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Day.

Our roundup of the latest news from metro Detroit and Michigan businesses as well as announcements from government agencies.

Our roundup of the latest news from metro Detroit and Michigan businesses as well as announcements from government agencies.

As hard as it is for me to believe, I’ve been writing about homeopathy for more than a decade now. Regular readers, of course, know that homeopathy is quackery, utter pseudoscience based on prescientific vitalism based on two “laws”: the Law of Similars and the Law of Infinitesimals. The former states that, to relieve a symptom, you use a substance that causes that symptom in healthy people. There is, of course, no science or logic to support this as a general principle other than sympathe...

Annual influenza vaccines significantly cut death during serial flu seasons in patients with heart failure in the prospective, placebo-controlled IVVE trial.

But study in lower income countries sees hint of benefit during peak disease season

Still, reductions in pneumonia and HF hospitalization during peak flu season reinforce the importance of vaccination.

Still, reductions in pneumonia and HF hospitalization during peak flu season reinforce the importance of vaccination.

People with heart failure who received an annual flu shot had lower rates of pneumonia and hospitalization on a year-round basis and a reduction in major cardiovascular events during peak flu season, in a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's 71st Annual Scientific Session.

The first thing for me that comes to mind is, I don’t see any biological explanation for this