Life

One in 100 black men and women develop heart failure before age 50, according to one of the first long-term studies to look at the life-threatening condition in younger adults.

A parent can no longer bark out an order to do a household chore and expect it to be completed.

Turn a bit red when you drink a mere half bottle of beer? If you’re of East Asian descent, consider that a warning: You may be at higher risk of alcohol-caused esophageal cancer.

Children grieve and mourn as deeply as adults.However, they will experience and express their grief differently from the grown-ups around them, depending on their cognitive and emotional development.

Fortune tellers say they can divine a person’s destiny by reading the lines in the palm of the hand. But when it comes to discerning the state of one’s health, turning the hand over is far more illuminating.

With job layoffs and shrinking investments, Canadians are being forced to accept that this recession is a reality. To save money, more consumers are likely going to cook most of their meals at home.

Missy Chase Lapine’s newest cookbook includes a chapter on holiday recipes, but in her kitchen, every day is April Fool’s Day.

• An informal survey of shoppers suggested Red Deer had earned its ranking as one of Canada’s two dozen most dangerous cities. The March 12 edition of Maclean’s ranked Red Deer the eighth-highest city for aggravated assaults and 23rd most dangerous city overall in Canada, based on 2006 per capita crime rates gathered by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics.

Operators of the Red Deer Regional Airport received a failing grade from some of their tenants. The re-established Red Deer Airport Business and Tenants Association presented the airport authority with a report that, among other things, called for the resignation of founding CEO

With a keen business mind and the interests of her husband and sons at heart, Colleen Howe was the glue that held the Howe family together.