Jack Dusty’s bar plays a central role in the restaurant with an emphasis on craft microbrews, a broad selection of rums and spirits and an array of specialty Sarasota-inspired cocktails made with farm fresh ingredients.

Do you have that one item you look for on a menu every time you go to a new restaurant? The duck at Euphemia Haye, the steak at Hyde Park, or the 1905 Salad at the Columbia?

The art and science of detecting breast cancer early is changing, especially with the scientific recognition that woman with the presence of “dense breast” tissue may be best advised to go beyond the traditional radiological mammogram.

In America alone, tens of millions take sleeping pills to sleep each night. Yet sleeping pills don’t produce natural sleep. They worsen memory. They increase the risk of death.

ERIN MCWHORTER Contributing Columnist ERIN@lbknews.com Welcome to the first installment of Longboat Key News’ guest columnist and Key foodie Erin McWhorter.   Read in coming weeks as Erin visits area culinary hotspots and offers healthy eating tips and observations. The food the table next to you ordered looks so beautiful and well presented.  The diner [...]

Many doctors now are slowly adopting the philosophy that it is not about the fat but about the sugar in our modern processed diet that causes heart disease and stroke

Foul up body clocks and people eat more – and less healthily.

MATTHEW EDLUND M.D. Contributing Writer edlund@lbknews.com Treasure your hips.  Regenerate them well.  Keep them whole. Or you may face a series of nightmares. That’s what happened to many who received metal hip implants made by DePuy.  DePuy Orthopaedics is a division of Johnson and Johnson, one of America’s “great companies.”  And the Articular Surface Replacement, [...]

Unfortunately, diet soda is more in vogue than ever.The average American drinks about two cans of this stuff every day which is up by 25% during the last decade. Knowing what I know now, I was shocked when I saw a 4 year old child gulping down a can of Coke Zero on the beach

DNA is one information system. And the pen that rewrites it can be viruses, bacteria, genetic engineering – and ultimately any imaginative human with access to a lab – a thought that has security experts spinning. Our bodies live on, manufacture, mutate and reform information as the basis of informing life. It’s time for medicine and public health to take note.