Bob Condor

Work and stress seem to go together like "fast" and "track." Researcher Tanja Vrijkotte is trying to separate the two. She wants to discover why people who are "overcommitted" to...

You wouldn't think it's a story Ann Marie Crowell wants to tell frequently. Her 12-year-old son, Brian, the youngest of three, died in a gun accident four years ago this...

The two sides can match horror stories like a couple of neighborhood theaters trying to outdo each other with Stephen King or Wes Craven movies. On one side, you can...

Like her summer reading list, there's nothing standard about the fast-food meals at Rosemary Deahl's restaurant. By night, Deahl has been reading the best-seller "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side...

The first thing Mac McCabe notices when he walks into his restaurant are the meals at customers' tables. Then he looks up to see the people doing the eating. Finally...

Earlier this month, Stanton Glantz was in France and England, of all places, to talk about the health hazards of smoking. But he wasn't trying to get anyone to quit...

People regularly ask Shay McKelvey how they might "tighten up" their midsections. One reason they ask is her career as a personal trainer and senior director of education at the...

Most guys are not eager to tell a woman that, yes, she needs to lose weight. Jim Karas is no exception. The difference with Karas is he finds a way...

The gap between mainstream medical care and natural medicine continues to close, if ever so gradually. In the last week, three University of Chicago physicians published a new study about...

Sight seen in New York City: A young woman walking in Midtown, talking in Japanese to a friend and wearing a shirt that says, "This is rude" in script across...