Seeing as he is only 5 years old, it's a bit premature to say Nicky Moore took the "trip of a lifetime", but it will be hard to top the adventure he and his family had earlier this month. ...more

December 28, 2009

The leading cause of disability and death in the United States is chronic disease. Heart disease and diabetes lead the list. About 133 million Americans live with at least one chronic disease and more than one in 10 have three or more. Your humble author is well acquainted with these numbers in so far as 18 months ago I received a new lease on life, a liver in an 8-hour transplant surgery. The costs are staggering. Chronic disease accounts for 75 percent of the more than $2 trillion spent on health care each year. Coronary heart disease alone, which afflicts 16.8 million Americans, costs some $165 billion a year. ...more

December 27, 2009

The leading cause of disability and death in the United States is chronic disease. Heart disease and diabetes lead the list. ...more

December 27, 2009

Sometimes a diva attitude is healthy. Four-month-old Ava Snyder has a feisty temperament that makes her parents groan when they think about what she might be like as a teenager. She is fascinated by faces and will stare down anyone who comes into her hospital room. ...more

December 19, 2009

Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry is "battling for his life" after falling out of the back of a pickup truck Wednesday during what police described as a domestic dispute with his fiancee. ...more

December 17, 2009

Sometimes a diva attitude is healthy. Four-month-old Ava Snyder has a feisty temperament that makes her parents groan when they think about what she might be like as a teenager. She is fascinated by faces and will stare down anyone who comes into her hospital room. ...more

December 16, 2009

Sometimes a diva attitude is healthy. Four-month-old Ava Snyder has a feisty temperament that makes her parents groan when they think about what she might be like as a teenager. She is fascinated by faces and will stare down anyone who comes into her hospital room. ...more

December 16, 2009

Good things come in 40s at Tampa Day School. At least, they do this year. ...more

December 16, 2009

The Academy of the Holy Names celebrated its annual Community Service Day on Nov. 18. There were 498 pupils who committed their time to benefit those less fortunate in 16 locations throughout the Tampa Bay area. ...more

December 16, 2009

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The number of children killed or injured by falling television sets appears to have risen even as more consumers replace their clunky old TVs with lighter flat screens, studies suggest. ...more

December 14, 2009