Aging

In a quest to look younger, be healthier and feel more vital later in life, increasing numbers of men, just like Jeffry Life, are turning to testosterone and human growth hormone. Use of both hormones is controversial. Read on: Testosterone: "Older men ....

The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920, when passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing any citizen the right to vote regardless of their sex, appeared imminent. Anticipating approval of the amendment, members of the National American Woman...

West T. Hill Community Theatre’s annual Play Reading week will be March 6-9. The four-day event is an opportunity for the community to read excerpts of the plays the theater’s personnel are considering for the 2011-2012 season. The readings...

Charles Town's Frank W. Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran, is only a "freshman" among the 85 people worldwide who have reached the age of 110 and beyond. Buckles celebrated his 110th birthday Tuesday at Gap View Farm, his home outside...

Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress whobrought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux tolife on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76. Her manager, Barbara Lawrence, said McClanahan died Thursday at1 a.m. at New...

Men with cardiovascular disease often wonder whether sexual activity might be dangerous for them, potentially triggering a heart attack in the midst of the excitement, or whether the exercise might actually be good for the heart. A new review by the...

It may be hard for those who grew up watching "Will & Grace" to imagine the shock and excitement when Mart Crowley's "The Boys in the Band" caught fire off-Broadway in 1968, becoming one of the most discussed, derided and defended dramas of its era. A...

Ordinarily, someone threatening to “bury [you and your band] up to your necks and run [you] over with a lawnmower” is a bad thing, but for Adrenalin O.D., that spirited bile probably made for the grandest of compliments. Formed in 1981, they...

A new test that may be able to spot Alzheimer's disease earlier was under review by an FDA advisory committee Thursday. The new Avid scan looks for amyloid plaques in the brain. These plaques are what doctors use to definitively identify Alzheimer's...

REDFIELD - Birrrrr!!! We have certainly been saying that a lot this winter. Since low temperatures outside are a way of life for us, it is important that we are fully informed about hypothermia including the signs and the actions we can take to help our...

In the great male tradition of “hold my beer and watch this,” a group of young guys who used to hang out together in the 1930s at White’s Garage up in Garrett County, Md., got hold of a propeller, which they bolted to — why not?...

PELLSTON -- The tall fences and paint-peeled walls of former Camp Pellston state minimum security prison will soon be history. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment plans to demolish the more than 50-year-old facility as early as next week,...