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If you’re trying to motivate yourself to get moving in the new year, here’s some added inspiration: Mounting research shows that exercise isn’t just good for the body, it’s also good for the brain — and not just the brains of older folks. Complete Story...
I'm the Guy Who Cut Your Health Benefits. Trust Me.The hidden benefits of exercise Taco Bell's Counterintuitive DietHealthcare Insurance Bills Would Shift Medicare Funds to Elite HospitalsCan exercise prevent memory loss and improve cognitive function?NYC Advises Heroin Addicts on the Proper Way to Shoot Up'Biggest Loser': Player sets weigh-in record
Ms CYPRAH: Do you find it difficult to give and receive praise? Let's have a Love-In! (Poll)
Big 3 News: BE YOURSELF: Love can't flourish under false pretenses or by affection dangled like a carrot
Ruel Raphael: Your Mental Health
weRdoomed: Feminism is Killing Me.
Dr. Sherman N. Miller: Putting a face on the uninsured
The two-hour drive is done, but Hannah and Jack Hurst leave the Honda's engine running.
Just as Britons brew black coffee to cope with holiday hangovers, they are also digesting a new report that warns the country's notorious drinking culture is putting an unacceptable strain on hospitals and medical staff.
About 10 years ago the government set some lofty health goals for the nation to reach by 2010.
Most New Year's party-goers know better than to drive drunk as tipsy celebrations loom. What they likely don't know, traffic experts say, is that walking drunk after tying one on is dangerous, too.
Nidal Hasan was causing a ruckus in his one-bedroom apartment during the early hours of Nov. 5, banging against the thin walls long after midnight, packing boxes and shredding papers until he woke up the tenants next door.
Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner.
Health officials say swine flu was widespread in only four states last week, indicating the fall wave of illness is still declining.
I once heard a saying about breast cancer: “Women either have it or are worried about having it.”Right now I’m just a worrier. But I have too many friends who fall into the more ominous category. Thus far, mercifully, they are all survivors.
By now many of us have gotten our doses of influenza vaccine. Now it’s time for a dose of influenza reality. Let’s acknowledge that flu virus is a living thing — and a pretty crafty one at that. Despite all our best efforts, sometimes flu will get the better of us. Depending on your personal experience, you may feel that was the case this year. But in my view, there are a lot of positives to take away from this year’s experience.
Two new studies find shortfalls in the Food and Drug Administration's approval process for heart devices such as pacemakers and stents.
The guaranteed contract has become such a bane in the NBA's salary-cap and luxury-tax economy that it likely will be among the prime agenda items addressed before a new collective-bargaining agreement is reached for the 2011-12 season.
The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.
Most people don't buy long-term care insurance. They simply don't want to think about moving into an assisted living center or hiring a stranger to bathe them.
Way back at the start of this decade, three high-tech, almost exotic issues dominated the bioethical landscape: cloning, embryonic stem cell research and bioterrorism.
General Manager Pat Lewis has a fine Web site at Patriot GM Superstores in Princeton, Ind. Would-be customers can search the dealership’s inventory and look at any vehicle it has available, customizing their purchases and setting up a variety of other services.
Chinese authorities Monday started administering health checks on all children living near a battery factory in the south of the country and closed the plant after more than 40 children were found with lead poisoning.
BedbugsBedbugs have feasted on sleeping humans for thousands of years. After World War II, they were eradicated from most developed nations with the use of DDT. This pesticide has since been banned because it's so toxic to the environment.
A Vaccine For Cocaine? Not So Fast. Turns Out It Just Keeps You From Getting High... Not Wanting To Get HighScientists may have created a vaccine against cocaine addiction: a series of shots that changes the body's chemistry so that the drug can't enter the brain and provide a high.
Study: Nearly Half of Soda Fountains Contaminated with BacteriaAccording to the International Journal of Microbiology, biologists in Roanoke, Virginia, analyzed 30 different soda fountains (20 self-serve and 10 staff-dispensed) for microbial contaminants and found that nearly half of them contained coliform bacteria
Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause a Pandemic The 1918 virus killed about 2.5% of the people it infected, 20 times deadlier than the seasonal flu. H5N1 is now killing 60% of infected people, 20 times deadlier than the 1918 virus.
Recently, I heard that it can be therapeutic to reminisce. There are all kinds of theories about how to cope with the difficulties in life. Some are about the "here and now," and never go back to the past.
Study: Antidepressant lift may be all in your head A small new study provides more evidence that, on average, antidepressants may be little more effective than a sugar pill in most patients who take them.
Antidepressants no help in milder casesMild to severe depression might be better treated with alternatives to antidepressant drugs, which do not help patients much more than an inactive placebo, researchers said on Tuesday.
A few weeks ago, I posted an article about a good school friend of mine, of three decades, who was stringing along a fellow schoolmate of ours for about a year or so and got busted by the wife. Well, three weeks and several marital counseling sessions later, little has changed.
Nation & World | Health-care legislation has immediate effects | Seattle Times NewspaperMore money for community health centers. Immediate help for the uninsured. No more lifetime limits on coverage.
Finding the G-spot: Is it real?Ladies (and gentlemen): Can you find the G-spot? Women everywhere have read or heard that they may possess a secret pleasure zone inside their bodies that, if stimulated correctly, yields intense pleasure and even orgasm.
"Young" Alzheimer disease patient pleads for progressAlzheimer disease patients must become more vocal as advocates in order to erase the stigma and break down stereotypes, says patient diagnosed with early-onset disease.
Vt. Farmers Hurt by Suffering Organic Milk SalesJust three years ago organic milk was the equivalent of liquid gold. Customers wanted it-- and milk producers were struggling to keep up with demand. That's not the case today. "Oh, it's night and day," said Lisa McCrory of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance.
Organic: untested labelProgram underfunded, recommendations aren't followed, pesticide testing rarely done When the National Organic Program opened its doors in 2002, the U.S. organic industry was on the cusp of a tremendous boom.
Statewide Anthrax ScareMOBILE, Alabama - BREAKING NEWS The Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating a statewide anthrax scare. Local lawmakers are among the targets.
Many patients lack the numerical skills to make good health decisions, study finds"Patients in medical offices should be screened for how well developed their numerical skills are to weigh their medical options, reports a new Cornell study.
Study: Spanked Children May Grow Up to Be Happier, More Successful - Children's Health - FOXNews.comYoung children spanked by their parents may grow up to be happier and more successful than those who have never been hit, a study has found.
US study says smacking kids helps themSmacking leads to happier kids, according to a new US study. Ironically, it took this long to find enough people who hadn't been smacked to do the study.
More children in U.S. are fully vaccinatedMore U.S. kids are fully immunized against common childhood illnesses, and disparities in vaccine coverage among socioeconomic groups are shrinking, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
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