On occasion, a health problem that was expected to be permanent or fatal instead disappears without medical intervention. The limited research that has been done suggests that the reason why one person recovers when most others do not might have as much...
Each year, I get hundreds of calls from people asking about the best way to comfort a friend or relative who has...
Then someone close to you dies, it's natural to grieve. The ache may never go away entirely, but you gradually...
Following two suspicious mammograms and an inconclusive ultrasound, I recently had a biopsy. Thankfully, it was negative, but the prolonged period of...
Changing to daylight saving time may give people an hour more of sunlight, but it appears that their internal body clocks never...
Pointing to a disconnect between doctors and some of their patients in greatest need, a new study suggests that large numbers of...
One night, Katie ate a "stew" of leftovers—stale pasta, wrinkled grapes, half a can of refried beans and week-old...
Meghan's mother was at her wit's end. "I know teenagers are temperamental, but Meghan's moodiness...
Premenopausal women struggling with depression have lower bone mass than do non-depressed women in the same age range, a new study found....
There's new evidence that getting along with others is more than a key to pleasant human interaction. It also appears...
By age 50 or 60, most of us have learned R that life offers many hard knocks. The key to handling these...
Meditation is good for us—it can relieve tension by shifting brain activity away from the stress-prone right frontal cortex and into...