Aging

By midlife, you've probably spent years thinking of yourself as a certain kind of person — outgoing or introverted, high-strung or easygoing, optimistic or pessimistic. You may have become accustomed to certain roles and styles of communication in...

The Washington County Commission on Aging has made tentative plans to relocate the Washington County Senior Center in an effort to improve services and save $50,000 per year. Susan MacDonald, executive director of the commission, said officials want to...

Compared with uncaffeinated women, those who drank the equivalent of four or more cups of coffee a day are more likely to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes and less likely to volunteer their time in church or community groups. But a new study finds...

First it was planking. Wikipedia defines planking as “lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location … refers to mimicking a wooden plank. Rigidity of the body must be maintained to constitute good planking.” As with all...

More than 100 prisoners, many shaved and tattooed, crowded into the hard pews of the Men's Central Jail chapel and craned their necks to get a good look at "The Man." Sheriff Lee Baca, the top authority figure in Los Angeles County's troubled jail...

Although Generation X may feel a lot of pressure to look good, there are also more tools available than there used to be. "Women today just have so many things at their fingertips to be able to use to look young. The most prevalent is hair color," says...

The Inter-Faith Ministries Board of Directors named Deborah Donaldson as Interim Executive Director of Inter-Faith Ministries on Thursday afternoon.  Donaldson will begin August 22, 2011. Donaldson is the Director of the Sedgwick County Division of Human...

The December deluge destroyed or damaged art and valuable documents in homes and studios in Laguna. In 1993, fire was the culprit. In 2005, a landslide. At least some, if not all, of the destruction could have been avoided, according to Scott...

When Malcolm Coley was diagnosed with HIV, he began preparing to die. The Baltimore man, a former heroin user who suspects he contracted the virus by sharing needles, packed his bags and moved to Washington to live his last days closer to family. "I...

In the 1980s, when researchers first identified the virus that causes AIDS, a positive HIV test was a virtual death sentence. There was no cure for the disease and no effective treatment; patients usually died within a few months or years of being...

It might seem like something out of an old television show, but thanks to the Healthcare Reform Law, house calls are no longer just a thing of the past for many patients and doctors across the country. Thanks to increased Medicare payments for house...

The Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, W.Va., has been introducing new plays for 21 years — middle-aged by theater festival standards. Plays by the well-known actor and playwright Sam Shepard have...