In the back of his mind, Allen Canterbury was aware that his weight had spiraled out of control. But it wasn’t until a statement on his medical chart caught his eye and inspired him to do something about it.

This ancient rhyme by mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge resonated in my head recently while I wandered in the bottled water aisle at a popular food mart. 

Laparoscopic or “minimally invasive” surgery is where the surgeon makes a very small incision, often in the patient’s belly button, and uses this incision to insert a camera, called a laparoscope, into the abdominal cavity. The surgeon then looks at a television screen to perform the operation.

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, progressive disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms develop when myelin, the substance that surrounds and protects nerve fibers, is destroyed.

Trial is winding down in Frankfort in that lawsuit filed by two Kentucky death row inmates challenging the state's use of lethal injection.