Move it!

Beach Bliss: Enjoy light yoga, Pilates, walking, stretching and meditation. Be gently guided through a relaxing, yet invigorating exercise class. Free fitness classes for Bal Harbour hotel guests and residents; 8 a.m. May 18; Bal Harbour Beach, Bal Harbour.

menopause

Mayo Clinic study finds explanation for postmenopausal belly fat

Weight was never a concern for Stephanie Brondani, 52, of Minnetonka, Minn. Until last year, when she hit menopause.

Skin Deep

If you’re basking in the sun, watch what you drink

Every year, I have at least one alarmed parent bring in their 18- to 25-year-old child with a strange rash on their skin after vacation. First, I ask where they went.

Healthcare

In Miami, more hospital prices may see light of day

Hospitals are loath to reveal their prices for fear of giving competitors an advantage. But the disparity in prices for the same procedure at different hospitals — and healthcare reform — could change that. Photo Gallery Available

New 3-D mammogram uncovers tiniest breast cancer tumors

In a dark room in her South Miami office, Dr. Nilza Kallos stared carefully at a glowing black, white and gray image of a patient’s breast. Photo Gallery Available

Ken and Kevin Foley (father and son) in their Coaral Springs home, April 24, 2013. Kevin is a 21-year-old heroin addict, now in the Broward County drug court, who is working to kick the habit and stay out of trouble. He turned to heroin after being addicted to prescription drugs. With the state's crackdown, the pills became to expensive and the supplies dried up.

Drug addiction

As pill mills fade away, heroin fills the void

There are signs that heroin is returning as a cheap alternative to prescription pills, the by-product of Florida’s successful crackdown on pill mills. Photo Gallery Available

Anaelvys Espinoza-Ruiz poses with her children Justin Alexander Ruiz, age 6, and Melanie Isabel Ruiz, age 16 months, outside of their home in West Kendall on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Espinoza-Ruiz is a cervical cancer survivor and expected to have difficulty getting pregnant after her cancer treatments in 2006. A few months later, she found out she was pregnant with Justin and a few years later, she was surprised with her second pregnancy with Melanie.

Mother’s Day

From cervical cancer to mother - thanks to new surgery

With her two laughing children and tall, handsome husband at her side, Anaelvys Espinoza-Ruiz of Miami is the picture of happiness on Mother’s Day. Photo Gallery Available

Britt-Angela Williams, center, works on "the happy camper," at JetSet Pilates in Coral Gables. JetSet is a 50- minute workout that promises Pilates, core training, strength training, and balance on Megaformer machine, which the NY Times dubbed, "pilates on crack.''

Sweat Equity

Pilates with muscles

The Megaformer machine turns Pilates into a one-stop gym experience. Photo Gallery Available

Jock Doc

Getting to the bottom of shins pain

I recommend you see an orthopedic surgeon for evaluation of your shins. A stress fracture is a microfracture of the bone that may not appear on an X-ray. If the doctor finds that you have discomfort in the region of the tibia or fibula bone in the shin, then he or she may order an MRI scan, which is usually accurate in diagnosing a stress fracture.

First person

Thank you to those who’ve lifted me up through breast cancer treatment

My brother’s friend flashed a smile when he saw me. I had not seen him in about three years and I felt butterflies in my stomach. He talked about his new life as the single dad of a 10-month-old boy. I did my best to summarize my ordeal after my Aug. 1, 2011, breast cancer diagnosis. Photo Gallery Available

For kids, avoiding risks can add to anxiety later

It was always the introduction for Georgiann Steely — the ringing of the doorbell, the approach to the man at the cash register — that made her palms sweat and knees knock.

Madhavan Nair (at right) and Sakhrat Khizroev, researchers from FIU's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine developed a new technique that can deliver and fully release the anti-HIV drug AZTTP into the brain by using magneto-electric nanoparticles to cross the blood-brain barrier. Here the researchers give a demonstration of a magnet's pull on the nanoparticles.

FIU researchers develop new pathway to brain for medicine

A physicist and an immunologist working together at FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine have developed a technique to deliver anti-HIV drugs to the brain more effectively.

Plastic surgery 101

Gastric sleeve may lead to more surgeries later

Your “friends’’ are taking some of your thunder away, but there is some truth in what they are telling you. It is still a bit early to tell what you may end up needing.

The Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) tablet, one of the brands known as the "morning-after pill."

Birth control

FDA rule on morning-after pill draws strong reaction

The agency has ordered retailers to make emergency contraception available to women 15 and older without a prescription. A federal judge’s ruling may expand that to females of any age.