Healthy Living Articles

The relationship between physician and patient is one of great importance and here is what you should know about finding a new doctor.

What exactly does the word "disability" mean, and what causes the state of being disabled? In this article, we take a radical look at an approach that, though officially recognized, society still has to catch up to.

In the United States, Canada, and many other countries, people do personal hygiene with dry paper. That doesn't always work very well, and the bidet offers a more satisfactory experience.

If you have a chronic illness and you don't have enough money to see a doctor, you usually get sicker and sicker until you lose your job, at least in the USA. Here are some ideas for what poor people can do to access medical care in the United States.

Infections patients catch while in the hospital kill over 75,000 people per year just in the United States, more than car crashes and breast cancer combined. Here's why nospital infections are a major problem, and what you can do to avoid them.

Summer may mean barbecues, swimming and enjoying time outdoors, but it also increases the risk of developing certain conditions or illnesses. The good news is there are several things you can do to stay healthy and safe throughout the summer.

The United States once was not just the richest country on Earth, but also one of the healthiest. Unadulterated greed is making tens of millions of Americans sick.

What's the fat acceptance movement, and what are fat activists trying to achieve?

Could wearing scrubs outside the hospital prove dangerous to patients? The rapid and scary increase in antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections all around the world may be in part due to contamination of medical uniforms.

As some doctors tell it, practicing medicine in the United States just isn't as profitable as it used to be. To be sure, the cost of medical education is high, and no one is going to earn millions a year as a doctor, but neither is poverty in the picture.