Some 288 MetroWest area male and female veterans are featured in "Legacy of Service," a moving exhibit at the Morse Institute Library in Natick.

For her first solo exhibit, Rhode Island artist Jane O'Hara is showing 28 edgy, often provocative acrylic paintings of dogs, cats, elephants, rats, rabbits and pigs that subvert conventional approaches to art based on animals.

Your guide to Fourth of July activities

For the 23rd season, the nonprofit Society for Historically Informed Performance is offering a rich sampling of Renaissance and Baroque music at three locations.

Road trip nets memorable brews in the Steel City.

Lead in ginkgo pills. Arsenic in herbals. Bugs in a baby's colic and teething syrup. Toxic metals and parasites are part of nature, and all of these have been found in "natural" products and dietary supplements in recent years.

During the summer months, parents often search for ways to reinforce skills and lessons their children learn in the classroom. If you are a parent of a child with autism, you understand how important, yet challenging, it can be to find fun ways for your child to practice their skills, including those that teach social interaction and independent living.

Let's take a step to the left of conventional fitness and find some rather unique exercises that will test your mettle and turn your body into granite.

Q: I heard whooping cough is on the rise. How can this be? I thought there was a vaccine for it and everyone got the shot?

The Journal of the American Medical Association is concerned how physicians communicate with seriously ill patients and their families.