Schools out indefinitely for Codwell Elementary School students — at least until the district has cleared up the mold problem found behind the walls. The students will instead be sent to another campus in August after the fungus was discovered, by renovation work crews, infesting the inner walls. Molds are fungi that are found everywhere—indoors…

According to Dr. Peter Alldritt, chair of the Oral Health Committee, there’s increasing evidence that shows a two-way relationship between diabetes and gum disease. He explained that poor controlled diabetes increases gum disease’s severity. At the same time, worsening gum disease makes it harder to control blood sugar levels, because it prevents patients from being…

How important is shaving for you? One professor made that question into a challenge for her class this year at Arizona State University. Professor Breanne Fahs asked her students to shake up their shaving routine. If they chose to participate and document their experience in a journal, they would receive extra credit for the experiment.Fahs…

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center, well over half of the United States experienced above normal amounts of rain last year, while 22% of states in the U.S. had the wettest year on record in 2013.  As storm after storm passes through the United States, 2014 looks like it’s…