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By Ron Pollack If you have Medicare, you know that as soon as the leaves start falling from the trees, your mailbox will fill up...

Billie Jean King is back playing tennis in Central Park with gusto after double-knee replacement surgery. And at 67, she’s encouraging all ages — especially baby boomers — to exercise and stay fit.

By Steven A. Nielsen A Flexible Spending Account (FSA) helps pay for medical expenses not covered by insurance. With the costs of health insurance on...

Ordinarily, this woman does not believe that household tasks are sex-specific. A person does not need upper-body strength to balance a checkbook. The ability to bear children does not uniquely qualify someone to slip a role of toilet paper into a holder. So when routine household chores don’t require superior brawn, she and her husband share them, each doing what he or she likes best or dislikes least.

By Al Norman In a recent radio address, President Barack Obama said: “No woman who is working full time should have to raise her children...

By Michael E. Festa We know that the most vulnerable among us must be protected. The aging population of Massachusetts will continue to grow along...

By Michael E. Festa Isolation — due to the death of a spouse, loss of friends and companions, and distance away from loved ones—puts millions...

Hyperlocal ingredients, a blend of technology and tradition, and treatments focusing not just on beauty but also on remedying stress and pain are some of the trends turning up at spas nationwide.

  FROG MUSIC*                                        Pub Date: April 1 By Emma Donoghue           Read by Khristine Hvam Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking...

Al Norman During debate on the state budget that begins July 1, the state Senate voted unanimously to add $6.1 million to give home care...