Finding answers amid the prostate cancer confusion
Richard Tayson has prostate cancer. How he's been living with it for nine years says a lot about the state of the disease today. The author and professor of poetry...
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What men need to know about the prostate and the PSA test
The blizzard of controversy over whether to rely on the PSA test as an accurate measure of possible prostate cancer may have left a lot of guys confused. So let's...
Yoga for cyclists can take the pain out of pedaling
Keeping a bicycle balanced and rolling puts stress and strain on the body that riders can prepare for, and recover from, with the right exercises. As more people use bikes...
The naked patient: The modesty movement won’t take it lying down
Patient modesty might seem like an oxymoron when those seeking medical care are routinely told to strip, lie back and let the professionals do their work. But to many people,...
Legacy videos let survivors enjoy the happier memories
There were tears when Barbara Bardak's three young children first started watching the video she'd made for them about her life and what she wanted for theirs. It wasn't long,...
Episcopal women recall 1974 priesthood struggle
Eleven women took on the all-male hierarchy and centuries of tradition in the Episcopal Church 40 years ago by being ordained as priests, and their audacious actions inspired an eighth-grader...
New tool to help those with arachnophobia
Being afraid of spiders may seem silly, but when a person checks every corner before entering a room or hyperventilates just thinking about them, it's serious and likely a phobia....
Rape kit testing still languishes
As a rape crisis counselor in college, Julie Smolyansky saw sexual assault victims get swabbed, probed and photographed, heaping humiliation on top of humiliation to collect evidence that she believed...
Let teens sleep in: expert
When even a Sonic Boom alarm — very loud and rigged to shake the bed — couldn't wake Terra Ziporyn Snider's teenage daughter for school, the former Wilmette mother knew...
Let teens sleep in: expert
When even a Sonic Boom alarm — very loud and rigged to shake the bed — couldn't wake Terra Ziporyn Snider's teenage daughter for school, the former Wilmette mother knew...