The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends:
• Screen cholesterol after age 2 but no later than age 10 for children with a family history of heart disease or other ris...
FORT WORTH, Texas — Beverly Morgan of Arlington, Texas, was 16 when she started taking the popular cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin.
But she eventually abandoned the me...
Overhydration has few benefits
Water can smooth stones and carve canyons. But don't count on drinking lots of it to help you lose weight, cure headaches or make you look ...
A patient recently asked me about a new diet plan called "Master Cleanse."
It is a popular "detox" diet that starts off with 7 to 10 days of strict adherence to a concoc...
Energy — the high-octane kind that pumps up the most stressed-out bodies — is only a sip away.
Or so goes the promise from the more than 500 energy beverages that are fu...
Efforts lead to legislation
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Redwood City, Calif., resident Matt Kelley has a hairless cat named Harry. For Halloween last year, Kelley dressed up as M...
Listening on a cell phone, even with a headset and free hands, can make a driver as dangerous as a drunken one, a new study suggests.
Researchers have previously explore...
Pets soothe stress of finals
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Students at Lynn University say they've been working like dogs to prepare for final exams. So who better to relieve s...
Nearly 19 percent of American adults struggle with an anxiety disorder and 5 to 8 percent deal with depression in a given year, and nearly half of those affected don't g...
Spring weather makes us want to stand outside or sit outside or run outside or garden outside. The key word being, of course, OUTSIDE.
But we also need to protect our sk...
