Arlington artist Lei-Sanne Doo sees abstract paintings as the perfect way to express feelings, ideas and experiences.
In 2005 the Super Bowl halftime show was performed by The Rolling Stones, whose ages one can detect only via carbon-dating methods. This year the featured band was The Who, who are so old they looked and sounded like pterodactyls on Lipitor.
The Archdiocese of Boston has notified its parishes that the precautions taken during peak flu season can be eased by Palm Sunday, on March 28.
It has been known for about a decade that female athletes suffer a disproportionate share of tears to the anterior cruciate ligament — “ACL,” for short — a flexible, rectangular-shaped band of tissue that stabilizes the knee joint. North Shore Physical Therapy in Marblehead has brought into local schools an education-and-exercise program aimed at sparing these young athletes from having to endure the recovery process from such a catastrophic injury.
In 2007, Dr. David Dosa wrote an essay for The New England Journal of Medicine about a cat at the Steere House nursing home in Providence, R.I., who apparently had the ability to sense when a patient was going to die. The media picked up the story and almost overnight, Oscar the cat became an international phenomenon.
Jude Simon moved to the United States from Haiti nearly 25 years ago. He still has friends there who were affected by last month’s earthquake, and he is doing his part to help his native people.
During warm weather, activities are typically performed outdoors where a variety of factors make each exercise a little different. This is not true of most indoor aerobic activities, at least not the way they are typically performed.
In a three-year study of fire and ambulance recruits in greater Boston published last spring, Dr. Stefanos Kales of Harvard's public health school and his partners found that 44 percent were overweight and 33 percent were obese, based on calculations of body mass index, a measurement that looks at weight and height and accounts for gender. The study excluded recruits 35 and older and those unlikely to be hired because of requirements at individual departments.
The shade of near black that is New England’s Atlantic Ocean sure looks a lot different in Bermuda. In fact, once you land — either by plane or cruise ship aside the endless ocean a shade reminiscent of Paul Newman’s eyes pairing perfectly with its pink sand beaches -- you become instantly hypnotized by the romance that unfurls before you on this island paradise.
A new study shows more teens are getting pregnant, having abortions or becoming young mothers in a reversal of previous trends. Local health care educators and teenagers say more needs to be done in schools to drive the pregnancy prevention message home to kids.
