Great news from the Cancer Community Center in South Portland. With the help of sponsors and more than 750 bicyclists, runners, and walkers the Center raised more than $80,000 at its Fight Back Festival at Pineland Farms last weekend. The goal was $75,000. Congratulations! Bicyclists […]

Back in 2005, Chris Kuhn and his colleague and friend Dave Langdon were trying to come up with a name for a celebratory lobster bake and bike ride they planned to host. They settled on Not Dead Yet, straight out of one of Chris’s favorite movies, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” An excerpt, courtesy [...]

Tuesday was the Swett family bike ride. I didn’t ride, I was part of the picnic crew. The plan was that we would all meet at Two Lights State Park around noon. The 12 cyclists, ranging in age from 10 to 63, pedaled off mid-morning from CycleMania, where the out-of-towners rented bikes. [...]

For the past two years, a group of Gorham residents has been trying to get the Maine Department of Transportation to stop spraying herbicides along the Mountain Division Rail Trail, which passes through Gorham. […]

I was once an x-ray tech at Maine Medical Center. I didn’t have x-ray vision, but I was skilled at aiming a beam of radiation at the appropriate body part. When I first started my training, we developed the x-rays by hand. I still remember the smell of the chemicals in the darkroom. It was [...]

This week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) announced its final recommendation against PSA screening for prostate cancer for men of all ages. […]

Want your kids to eat their vegetables? Serve them with water. That’s the advice of T. Bettina Cornwell of the University of Oregon and Anna McAlister of Michigan State University. The two researchers were involved in two separate studies about food and drink choices. Their findings were just published in the journal Appetite. [...]

Dick Johnson started playing the trombone in the seventh grade. He wanted to play the French horn. “When I was in the sixth grade,” he says, “we had a music room at the elementary school and they had all the instruments of the orchestra in big pictures and I saw the French horn. The French [...]

Ann Hutchins’ grandson Garrett Stevens Everywhere I go I run into someone who tells me a story that catches my interest. Ann Hutchins, for instance. We were seated together at the Go Red For Women Luncheon last month when she told me about her grandson Garrett. He’d been very, very sick recently [...]

Moonlit Stars by Annette Bryce Shalom House Art Program Shalom is a Hebrew word that means peace. It is also the name of an organization in Portland, Maine that has brought peace of mind to thousands of people affected by mental illness. Shalom House. […]

Nine people sit around the table. They were all chatting when I entered the room and stopped to acknowledge and welcome me as I sat down. I look at them as a group and then as individuals. I notice nothing unusual. I tell you this because looking like ordinary people, while mostly a good thing, [...]

The color red. Exciting. Stimulating. Attention-getting. It’s the highest arc of the rainbow, the color with the longest wavelength. It makes us react more quickly and forcefully. It is the color of blood, symbolizing life and vitality. It is Tuesday’s color. Today, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, everywhere I looked I saw red, even when I caught [...]

In 2011, the number of cases of Legionnaire's Disease in Maine went up. Learn more about the disease and how it spreads.

Did you know there is a phone app that can help you do CPR? Now, if I suddenly collapsed and my heart stopped beating, I’d want whoever was nearby to immediately leap into action, not whip out a cell phone to figure out what to do. But the app, which I just downloaded on my [...]

Four years ago Rorie Lee slipped on the ice and hit the back of her head. “I went right back to work,” she says. “Everyone said you’ll be fine, you just had a concussion."

Who doesn’t hate wearing a hospital johnny? Unflattering thin material, flimsy ties, and flapping rears! Patricia Royall certainly didn’t like them when she was undergoing breast cancer treatment. Challenged to design something better, Patricia created Jazzy Johnnys™ — an entire line of stylish, practical, and environmentally friendly patient wear and accessories, available even for dogs. [...]

Between 2009 and 2010, seven Bonny Eagle High School students were involved in serious car accidents. One student was killed. When school officials heard the Ford Driving Skills for Life program was coming to Maine, they vowed to bring it to Bonny Eagle. The DSFL program has been wending its way through 30 cities across the [...]