Miami Herald

When Dr. Hank Barreto laughs, not a silver filling gleams in his mouth. You won't find one inside the mouths of his father, his wife or his 2 1/2-year-old son,...

Kenneth Neagle, 69, spends a lot of time at the gym. He swims and does aqua-aerobics, pushing plastic foam weights against the water to build muscle and increase his heart...

Hemophilia is the rare genetic bleeding disorder that strikes only men. But a bleeding problem that is 100 times more common--von Willebrand's disease--and causes debilitating problems for women is virtually...

Just the tiniest fraction of all the reasons football is the best sport of all: That electricity before kickoff, which is seen or felt nowhere else except in the final...

Any other person would have been partying the week away after winning Wimbledon. Not Lindsay Davenport. Instead, she went to New Haven, Conn. In an agreement made well before her...

There's Silicon Valley in California, Silicon Prairie in Chicago, and there may soon be Silicon Beach--with Miami becoming the Internet-services hub for Latin America. The companies that quietly have begun...

So now Phil Jackson re-enters the fray, his legend all the larger because he was undefeated last season. Maybe the Lakers, the NBA's most underachieving team, will listen to Jackson...

Addiction treatment no longer has to be a "drug-free zone" in a medical clinic. That's because of new therapies designed to soften the trauma of withdrawal and blunt the cravings...

How do you heal a damaged heart? There are more answers than ever to that question. And that's a very good thing, because heart disease kills 733,000 people a year...

Alternative healing draws a wide range of believers. It is often said that man does not entertain the idea of a Higher Power until he is in a foxhole and...