Faced with terminal illness, man chooses end-of-life option By Barbara Sadick June 5, 2018 at 8:44 a.m. Five years ago, 64-year-old Ray Perman was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Perman, a designer and...
Women get hernias, too, but they’re often ‘hidden’ By Hillary Gulley June 5, 2018 at 8:43 a.m. It was late spring in 2013 when I frog-kicked in a Maine lake and felt...
Elite runners, women the first marathoners to lose to Father Time By HealthDay June 5, 2018 at 9:04 a.m. All marathon runners eventually slow down. But a new study finds that whether a runner...
A quick test to gauge balance for older adults By Alison Bowen April 24, 2019 at 6:57 a.m. One-fourth of older adults are in danger of being injured through a fall. For those...
More older women hitting the bottle hard By HealthDay April 24, 2019 at 6:57 a.m. More older American women than ever are drinking — and drinking hard, a new study...
They isolated themselves for 726 days to give their daughter a chance at life By Sarah Ellis June 5, 2018 at 9:40 a.m. The walls of the O'Neill house in Columbia do talk. They're covered with phrases 7-year-old...
Heroin epidemic expands its grip on America By Steven Reinberg June 5, 2018 at 9:33 a.m. Heroin use in the U.S. jumped fivefold over a decade, and young, white males are...
Would you raise a glass to a good workout? Some gyms think so. By Mike Plunkett June 5, 2018 at 9:40 a.m. An advertisement during this year's Super Bowl showcased the latest trends of fitness: Exercisers engaged...
Mental health therapists see uptick in patients struggling with postelection anxiety By Christine Clarridge June 5, 2018 at 10:04 a.m. Puget Sound resident Marcus Searles considers himself an enthusiastic consumer of knowledge and information, but...
Yo-yo dieting isn’t just counterproductive – it could put you at risk By Carrie Dennett June 5, 2018 at 10:03 a.m. Diet, lose weight, regain weight, repeat, repeat, repeat. Yo-yo dieting is an all-too-common phenomenon. More...