Living

Hot Property: Buying into Malibu – for a song

LOS ANGELES – Kid Rock has officially checked out of Malibu, but with a whimper rather than a bang.

Ritz-Carlton isn’t all about hotels anymore. Now it’s launching a cruise line

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company is launching a luxury cruising yacht line scheduled to hit the water in the fourth quarter of 2019, the company announced Thursday. The new Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection will be based in Coconut Grove.

Miami-Dade County

Kids locked in hot cars can die in minutes. This is what cops say you should do

It’s every parent’s nightmare — accidentally locking their child inside a sweltering car. The danger is real, and almost immediate.

Business

About 124,000 office chairs with legs that break under pressure are recalled

Staples recalled about 124,000 Hazen Mesh Task ergonomic desk chairs after receiving 20 reports of the chrome legs breaking. The chairs retailed for $100 to $180.

Food & Drink

Hey, red wine lovers, you’re forgetting something. Something delicious.

It’s summer. You’ve got the grill fired up. You want red wine. Why aren’t you drinking Zinfandel?

Food & Drink

What the label doesn’t say gets 984 pounds of pork pulled from the shelves

Miami’s Embutidos Fanguito recalled Jamon Vicky Lasqueado Smoked Flavor Added Sliced Cooked Ham & Water Product and Embutidos El Fanguito Chorizo because, the USDA said, the products were labeled incorrectly as cooked products when they were not cooked. Also, they contained soy and MSG, which weren’t on the label.

Home & Garden

Taming the wild mango

There is a wide diversity of wild mango species that bear edible fruit. They are related to the mango we all know and love, Mangifera indica, but they are not the same. These wild, edible mangoes, which originated in Asia, are in danger of extinction.

Chew on This

Lose 10 pounds in a day. Coconut oil cures all. Welcome to fake news, nutrition-style.

If you want to know how to identify fake news, ask a dietitian. We have been dealing with crazy nutrition claims forever.

Health & Fitness

Love weddings? How not to put on the extra pounds that come with them.

It’s that time of year again: wedding season. This can be a time of blissful happiness or a time that stretches the limits of self-restraint while trying to keep your health in check.

Health & Fitness

Can your iPhone tell if you’re depressed?

A new iPhone app developed by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers aims to track and predict mood episodes through keystrokes.

Home & Garden

Bring the man cave into the light with these ideas

While the dark, dingy man cave with the mismatched recliners has gone the way of videotapes and TV antennas, new homes come with options that the man-of-the-house will love. Here's a look at new ways to find rooms for guys to hang out.

Home & Garden

On Gardening: Pineapple lily easy to grow, exotically beautiful

Once you start growing the pineapple lily, you'll wonder why you haven't been growing it for years. Sparkling Burgundy was the first one to intrigue me at the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens as it was thriving in what I might normally consider extreme conditions. It was and still is growing in full sun, practically no attention from horticulture staff and zero irrigation. Yet, every year it is there blooming with a Shoal Creek vitex, fire bush, and torch lily in a unique combination.

Home & Garden

For some, going tiny means going home

Has a binge watching session of HGTV's "Tiny House, Big Living" got you daydreaming about a massive downsize? Imagining a life in which your home has wheels?

Food & Drink

Gables company gulps down George Clooney’s tequila brand

George Clooney is going to be able to sock away a little more money for his newborn twins.

Pets

Pet Vet: His bearded dragon lizard no longer wants to eat

I think a lot of people realize that veterinary medicine can present challenges different from those in human medicine. Certainly, our companions have some similar physiology and structures to our own, however the main challenge is that veterinary medicine patients are not as communicative as humans are with their physicians. I have seldom had a patient "tell me where it hurts."

Pets

This cat is getting chemo to treat cancer. Is that the right thing to do?

Unlike chemotherapy used to treat cancer in humans, the treatment used on pets is less invasive. Veterinarian recommends that chemo be considered to save a pet’s life.

Health & Fitness

Alzheimer’s bike ride to focus on possible treatments of disease

Integrated Health Center of Miami hosts Alzheimer’s foundation “Longest Day” charity bike ride and conversation about disease-reversing protocol.

Plastic Surgery 101

Do not get rid of the fat in your face — it will make you look droopy

Fat is needed to support the structure for your face and you should not surgically remove it.

Ana Veciana-Suarez

Old age, like beauty, is in the eye of beholder

A new study shows how different age groups think differently about when youth ends and when senior citizenship starts.

Health & Fitness

Fever during pregnancy may increase autism risk in offspring

A mother’s fever during pregnancy, especially in the second trimester, is associated with a higher risk that her child will be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, a new study says.

Dave Barry's Blog

Videos

Air Force special-ops trainee Paul Casas, on being diagnosed with Moyamoya disease, a rare brain disease.

Jun 06, 2017

Paul Casas, a 28-year-old Special Ops Air Force trainee, first became aware of his symptoms when his left arm would go numb and his memory began to slip. He was diagnosed wtih Moyamoya disease, a rare condition that causes blood flow to the brain to be restricted. A University of Miami neurosurgeon, Jacques Morcos, M.D., operated on him on May 24 at Jackson Memorial, performing a double-barrel bypass that would essentially give him a new artery to supply blood flow to the right side of his brain. Four days after the operation, Casas was discharged from the hospital, cured. His symptoms immediately disappeared, with his memory immediately coming back. Casas shared his experience at a new conference on Tuesday, June 6, 2017.

Carl Juste The Miami Herald