Earth Day may be once a year, but global warming is happening every day. Everyone has some impact on rising temperatures; and the quality of our environment has an impact on our health. Just as our thoughts are intrinsically linked to biological responses in our bodies, our bodies are bound to what happens to our air, water, and earth.

Modern sleep medicine is a relatively young medical science that got its start in the early 1950s with the discovery of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. Now, physicians can become specialists in sleep medicine and the field is exploding with new research.

If you're like many Americans, you may have come to rely on antibiotics whenever you come down with an infection. When these drugs became widely available more than 50 years ago, they were hailed as a miracle cure — and in many ways, they have been. Used to treat...

* 7 to 7:45 a.m. Meditation/ Contemplative Prayer Circle: Prac-titioners of all styles welcome to strengthen their daily practice by sitting with a group. Every weekday morning. Call Michael at 521-6701 for location or more information.

Heart disease is an equal opportunity disabler and killer. For so many years, and even now, many women assume that cancer, particularly breast cancer, is a bigger risk to their long-term health and well-being than heart disease. Not so, ladies.