Lexington Herald-Leader

Gardens throughout the country this summer have suffered in the heat. But Susie Marshall's back-yard vegetable garden in Jessamine County, Ky., remains her fountain of youth. "I get up in...

Hyden is a small Kentucky town that changed American health care. In 1925, 44-year-old Mary Breckinridge founded Hyden's Frontier Nursing Service, and its nurses on horseback brought the first organized...

Health-related old wives' tales are alive and well. Matt Makaveli of Georgetown, Ky., is a 28-year-old movie theater employee, not someone you'd expect to tout the healing powers of old...

In the medical exam room, Garnetta Mallory gasps, nearly doubled over in pain, her hands clasped to the lower left side of her abdomen. Behind a closed door across the...

We watch an athlete like Wayne Gretzky, we decide he is the best ever and we decide he deserves millions upon millions of dollars through the years. We pay. Franchises...

The couch could be the most important piece of furniture in the house. It's the place to veg out, watch the game, curl up to read a book, take a...

Vegans (pronounced "VEE-guns") are the strictest type of vegetarians. They avoid all animal products--even American staples such as milk, eggs and cheese. "For the true vegan, it can even go...

A new low-cal diet may help stave off Alzheimer's, research suggests. Skip that second helping of turkey. Forget the mashed potatoes and gravy, and don't even think about the cheesecake....

Schoolchildren often learn to count by connecting dots to create a picture. Easy, you say? Not if you're blind. Same goes for that icon-ridden, "user-friendly" computer program known as Windows....

Too timid? Playing soft? Backing down? Kentucky answered those questions from Tuesday's loss against Duke with an emphatic no, no and no. The Wildcats' self-styled intimidator, Jamaal Magloire, personally put...