Providence Journal

Most of us who puff, groan and sweat our way through aerobics classes leave the gym thinking one thing: I know it's good for me, but I wouldn't want to...

For 69-year-old Lillian McKenna, osteoporosis is more than a pain in the neck--it's also a pain in the back. Her brittle spine, fractured in two places, hurts so much she...

When Linda Pierce turned 30, she made up her mind. "I had always planned on getting married and having children," she says. "The getting married part just wasn't happening." So...

Susan Federico doesn't want her children playing with violent toys--but tell that to her 3-year-old daughter, Natalie. The youngster toted her beloved yellow Power Ranger doll around the Ann &...

Kerry Moser, of Providence, R.I., and her two sisters didn't want to frighten their mother by telling her she was going into a nursing home. She wouldn't have understood anyway....

For newborn babies, being held is nice. But being held against your mother's bare skin is even nicer. Research by a Rhode Island Hospital pediatrician has found that skin-to-skin contact...

The Ashes of Eden By William Shatner Pocket Books, 320 pages, $23 You have to know this isn't your average "Star Trek" novel by the end of Chapter 3, when...

Two years ago, William Corwin's daughter complained during a soccer game that her chest felt like it was being squeezed. She felt better after she rested, and Corwin didn't think...

Who was the first black All-American halfback in football? The answer is Fritz Pollard, star of Brown University's trip to the Rose Bowl in 1916. John Carroll, a former Brown...

Telephone customers in most of New England and New York are being asked to pay $47 million this year for an advertising campaign with a single goal: to get the...