South Side Story. CHICAGO The figures are stilled in lovely black-and-white portraits along the walls of Josephine Wade's soul food restaurant here on the South Side. There's Lou Rawls. And Aretha Franklin. "I do all of Aretha's cooking when she comes to town," Wade says.

PTs Say Appropriate Exercise Can Help Prevent ACL Injuries In Female Athletes. The American Physical Therapy Association is urging female athletes - particularly soccer players - to consider a new warm-up program to help lower their growing risk of anterior cruciate ligament injuries.

Farrell Sets The Barre High. It's a long shot almost beyond contemplation: Imagine the ballet equivalent of hockey's Miracle on Ice, or of the nearly winless Buster Douglas setting his sights on Mike Tyson's heavyweight belt. That kind of supreme confidence -- and possibly overreaching -- will be on view this week at the..

A 'New Leash on Life' for patients. It was a "Honey" of an achievement. Sherry Matthews took a few steps, then a few more, then a whole bunch more on a recent Wednesday afternoon.

That Summer We All Went to Washington. The Cobb/Rudy family, ages 11 to 49, is down from Syracuse on summer vacation. Four kids, tweeners to teeners, Mom and Dad. They're looking to hit the city's museums. It's late August.

Niemeyer & the Sweep of History. At almost 101 years of age, the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer's eyesight is pretty much limited to peripheral vision, but he's still working. There are cultural centers in Spain and Chile to be finished, and a corporate headquarters in Paraguay. And he is still busy in his native Brazi..

Cardinal pays $34M to settle substance claims. The Justice Department says a suburban Columbus company will pay $34 million to settle claims that it failed to report suspicious sales of controlled substances.

Court rules Calif. newspaper can cover own trial - AP. A California appeals court has overturned a lower court's order that barred The Orange County Register from reporting on trial testimony in a lawsuit in which the newspaper is a defendant.

Reshaping The Behavior Of Markets Where Drugs Play A Central Role.. Main Category: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 23 Sep 2008 - 2:00 PDT Blue Spoon Consulting Group, LLC, published a framework for pharmaceutical companies to reshape the behavior of markets..

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Partners with Dermatology Nurses'.. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins has signed an agreement with the Dermatology Nurses Association to publish their brand new Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association.

Time and Again. In the four decades he's lived in the farm town of Oxford, Iowa, Peter Feldstein, 66, has remained something of an outsider. If you weren't born there, you are eternally regarded as a newcomer by people who go back several generations. He was originally from New York, an artist,..

Advice for osteoarthritis patients: Get moving. For people with osteoarthritis, "move it or lose it" could be more than just a phrase.

Synta Pharmaceuticals to Present at the Third Annual JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference. Rob Kloppenburg, 781-541-7125 or MacDougall Biomedical Communications Doug MacDougall, 781-235-3060 Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp.

It's an Ugly Business When Fashion and Reality TV Converge. PARIS As designers have been sending their spring 2009 collections down the runways here, sometimes it has been hard to know whether one was watching a global industry engaged in its most urgently creative sales endeavors or if one was in the midst of a reality show.

Glucose monitoring in diabetic pregnant women lowers risk of complications. Continuous glucose monitoring as part of antenatal care for women with diabetes improves maternal blood glucose control and lowers birth weight and risk of macrosomia*, according to a study published on..

Survey: Boomers want sex, many less able. Boomer generation women are less prepared than men for the physical changes associated with menopause that can affect sex, a U.S. survey indicates.

The Nerd-Next-Door Voted Most Likely to Succeed. Michael Cera is the best actor under 30, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Just One Session Of Exercise Can Improve Metabolic Health In.. Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Also Included In: Diabetes ; Conferences Article Date: 25 Sep 2008 - 2:00 PDT One out of every three Americans is obese.

Physical Therapy and Exercise for Arthritis. Arthritis is a condition that can cause stiffness, pain and swelling in joints and other supporting structures of the body such as bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Steve Fossett: the records. There was no refuelling for 67 hours a In 2006, he broke the record for the longest flight, spending nearly 77 hours in the air and covering more than 25,000 miles Steve Fossett: the records This article was..