Multiple Sclerosis

Shannon Farar-Griefer hears the call of the wild Badwater race

2013-05-24 00:00:00

Ultramarathons are to running what the Marquis de Sade was to romance. Not sure I support such extremism. When one of the sport's stars, a frantic rabbit by the name of Shannon Farar-Griefer, runs the infamous Badwater, she races on desert roads so hot...

Use of alertness drug modafinil takes off, spurred by untested uses

2013-05-02 13:51:00

In up-all-night, work-work-work America, a prescription medication like modafinil was sure to make major inroads from the get-go. And, whether you call this novel stay-awake drug by its commercial names -- Provigil and Nuvigil -- or by its plain-Jane...

Strategies for cutting the cost of prescription drugs

2013-04-19 20:47:00

When Maggie Heim had a recurrence of ovarian cancer about a year after her initial treatment, her oncologist suggested that she take what he believed could be a lifesaving drug. There was just one problem: Her insurer wouldn't pay for it. The 59-year-...

PASSINGS: Robert W. Edgar, Chrissy Amphlett, Robert Earl Holding

2013-04-23 22:43:00

Robert W. Edgar Six-term Pennsylvania congressman Robert W. Edgar, 69, who represented Pennsylvania for six terms in the House of Representatives, served as president of the Claremont School of Theology and went on to lead the public interest group...

Sharon Osbourne says she's 'devastated' by Ozzy's substance abuse

2013-04-23 19:02:00

Hey, Ozzy Osbourne -- in case you didn't know, the missus isn't too thrilled with you right now. Sharon Osbourne on Tuesday addressed the rumors over her marriage to the heavy-metal star on her CBS show "The Talk." Reports have suggested that the...

Divinyls singer Chrissy Amphlett dies at 53

2013-04-22 08:43:00

Chrissy Amphlett, lead singer of the Australian rock band the Divinyls, died Saturday in New York after a long battle with breast cancer, according to the Associated Press. She was 53. The Divinyls hit big at home in the '80s and '90s with four Top 10...

Blackhawks beat Wild, 2-1, on Bryan Bickell's overtime goal

2013-05-01 00:00:00

— Bryan Bickell scored in overtime on a two-on-one rush, and the Chicago Blackhawks started the playoffs on a winning note after dominating the regular season, beating the Minnesota Wild, 2-1, on Tuesday night. Corey Crawford settled down after...

Annette Funicello: From Mouseketeer to icon on screen

2013-04-08 12:37:00

Annette Funicello, who died Monday at age 70, will be forever remembered as the child performer from the "Mickey Mouse Club." And it was on this program, which aired in its original incarnation from 1955 to 1959, that the broadest range of the young star'...

Remembering Annette Funicello

2013-04-08 14:33:00

I was a star-struck 9-year-old when I saw Annette Funicello in person. Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Morey Amsterdam and Jody McCrea were promoting American International Pictures’ sun-and-surf musical comedy “Muscle Beach Party” and...

Annette Funicello dies at 70; Mouseketeer and 'beach' movie star

2013-04-09 00:00:00

If you were a girl in the 1950s, Annette Funicello was the ideal of feminine goodness, your fantasy best friend forever. If you were a boy, she was your dream date, demure, doe-eyed and just different enough to set hearts pounding. The most adored of...

Margaret Thatcher, Annette Funicello and the spectrum of sisterhood

2013-04-09 05:00:00

While former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton considers the pros and cons of trying, once again, to become this nation's first female president and Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns as the bumbling but pencil-skirt-rocking fictional vice president in...

Mouseketeer Annette Funicello remembered by Walt Disney's daughter

2013-04-08 12:15:00

Walt Disney’s daughter said the nation lost a consummate professional and one of the loveliest people she has ever known with the death of Mouseketeer Annette Funicello. Funicello, the longtime Disney and beach movie star, passed away Monday at...

Brenda Snow grew a health marketing firm into the Snow Companies because she wanted to tell stories of people with chronic conditions. She lives with multiple sclerosis.

2013-05-23 03:27:00

Emory Rowland logs miles on the C+O Canal towpath recently. He will ride cross-country to raise money and awareness for Multiple Sclerosis.

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Emory Rowland will ride cross-country to raise money and awareness for Multiple Sclerosis.

2013-05-14 00:00:00