Hundreds of people packed the Tampa Convention Center's East Hall for the 8 On Your Side Health and Fitness Expo today. ...more

February 27, 2009

A gym, barber shop and planters of plastic flowers: Welcome to the gentler face of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. ...more

February 22, 2009

Children at Schwarzkopf Elementary will have more ways to get exercise during the school day once a $14,000 fitness circuit opens. ...more

February 18, 2009

Children at Schwarzkopf Elementary will have more ways to get exercise during the school day once a $14,000 fitness circuit opens. ...more

February 18, 2009

Astronauts raised plastic cups of iced tea and toasted the Thanksgiving holiday before eating a traditional dinner of smoked turkey, cornbread dressing and candied yams at the International Space Station. ...more

November 28, 2008

PALM HARBOR - The YMCA of the Suncoast is putting a little extra muscle into its branch here, a nearly $2 million expansion that will include more fitness and exercise areas along with the latest in trendy workout equipment. Randy McElwain Nilsson, executive director of the Greater Palm Harbor Branch YMCA, said the makeover has been exciting for members and staff who have watched the changes take place. ...more

June 20, 2008

Former Mayor George Fee is willing to do whatever it takes to help improve the quality of life for residents of the city he treasures. ...more

June 7, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - Former Mayor George Fee is willing to do whatever it takes to help improve the quality of life for residents of the city he treasures. And like so many others in the community, his good friend Perry Jacobsen knows it. It was almost a given, then, when Jacobsen, a Temple Terrace Rotarian, recently asked Fee to contribute to the club's fundraising efforts to help renovate the rundown Linwood Park at 62nd Street and 113th Avenue. ...more

June 5, 2008

SEBRING — A least one group of medical professionals still makes house calls. With a nine-person staff, including four nurses, the local two-month-old Visiting Nurse Association of Florida regularly makes house calls to 44 patients. The not-for-profit foundation was established nationally in 1976. "We teach them the tools to stay out of the hospital," said Kimberly Simms, director of marketing. "The nurses bring a smile and a helping hand." VNA visiting nurses work hand in hand with physicians when visiting 74 -year old Donald Vanyo. The homebound Lake Placid resident takes 14 pills a day. ...more

May 27, 2008

A recent Time magazine takes a look at Americans by the numbers. I love these kinds of surveys because they help you realize there are a whole lot of people out there who need to get a life as much as you do. For example, after work and sleep, you know what consumes the largest portion of our day? Watching TV. And why wouldn't it? ...more

November 28, 2007