Among wealthier countries, Americans “die the youngest and experience the most avoidable deaths” despite spending almost twice as much on health care as others, a recent Commonwealth Fund Study found.


I know people who prefer their daylight “late” (I’m one of them — if I have outside work to do at home, I prefer to do it in the evening). They’d prefer that the current Daylight Saving Time become “standard” time year-round.


The doctors at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics are beyond excellent, they are some of the best in the world.




The smell of turkey wafted through the farmhouse was pulling us out of bed by the nose.