Family Health Articles

Razor-harboring candy isn't the biggest danger your kids will face this Halloween — it's cars! How can you keep them safe in the crazy and spooky Halloween traffic this year?

There are many ways in which coffee is a boon to good health, but some "coffee" products are to be carefully avoided.

Kids are wonderful, and I for one cannot imagine what my life would have been like if I didn't have my kids.

Menorrhagia is the medical term for unusually heavy periods, which may also last for longer than usual. During these periods, a woman will lose more than 8o ml of menstrual fluids or her menstrual flow continues longer than seven days.

Want to freak people out or make their heart melt on Halloween? If you're pregnant or have recently had a baby, Halloween costumes are more fun than ever before!

"Autism" is a word that gets thrown around a lot, and also something many parents are worried about. As autism is a spectrum of disorders rather than a single condition, the effects vary greatly.

Preeclampsia is a very serious pregnancy complication that is characterized by high blood pressure with protein in the urine. Other organs, frequently the kidneys, can be damaged by preeclampsia.

Being a first-time parent causes a lot of unnecessary freaking out, along with (sometimes!) some warranted worries. What stuff that might concern you is completely normal, and what is a real reason to panic?

Plenty of scary and important decisions have to be made during pregnancy. In the grand scheme of things, the name you pick for your baby isn't really important, right?

A vanishing twin also called fetal reabsorption is a strange phenomenon. The pregnancy starts out as a twin pregnancy, but one of the twins is then partially or completely reabsorbed by the mother's body or the twin. The twin "vanishes".