GAYLORD — When doctors told Karen Hansen in December 2007 that her cancer returned and chemotherapy could prolong her life a year and a half, she went home and decided she would try to cure herself.

Not all health-related problems require complicated modern medical treatments and expensive synthetic medicines available today; you don’t necessarily have to spend hundred of dollars just to get rid of common colds and coughs.

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage cross

IDENTIFYING the active ingredients in herbs and understanding how herbs affect the body are important research areas for the US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).

About 200 patrons visit The Water Bug Health Food Store each day looking for alternative health options and nutritional supplements, vitamins and herbal remedies fly off the shelves. But proposed legislation aimed at regulating the health product industry