Knight Ridder Tribune

Every day, sports media mention a pro athlete having arthroscopic surgery on a knee or elbow or shoulder, but on the hip, hardly ever. Arthroscopic hip surgery does happen and...

Here's how powerful suggestion can be: Say "subliminal advertising" and people think, "Oh, yeah. Popcorn and Coke at the movies." The story goes that when the words "Drink Coca-Cola and...

Forget about crunches. Toss the ab roller. These days, if you want a slimmer, tighter midriff, the secret is the physio ball. Yes, that oversize beach ball in the corner...

One afternoon, a woman cuts her hair. The next day, a woman takes her 5-year-old daughter, who has brain cancer, to be measured for a wig. It is so ordinary,...

Six years old, and he's reading road signs out loud. In a singsong lisp, Turner Tackitt calls out every sign that flashes by: "Do not enter. No parking any time....

In this corner, measuring 5-foot-4 and weighing 120 pounds: the accountant, dressed in gray sweat shorts and a white tank and carrying a Calvin Klein water bottle. In the other...

After 70 minutes, a fine sheen of sweat covers dancers in Suzanne Hawkins' advanced ballet class. Two of her students are ballet teachers themselves. Three are college students. Two are...

Taking off weight is one thing. Keeping it off is another matter altogether. Regular dieters know all too well the roller-coaster ride. Try one weight-loss technique. Lose 20 pounds. Two...

Hillary Bressler wasn't looking to have her employees telecommute. On the contrary, Bressler, a new business owner, would have preferred that her six-member staff work in the office of her...

Every pupil who passed through Doug Wilson's elementary school classroom in Kansas City, Mo., came out with the same message: Meet me under the old oak tree in front of...