Ovulation: What is it, and what do you need to know?
Trying to conceive is a complicated process. Whether and when you will succeed depends on a great many factors, but ovulation is one that is impossible to ignore.
Do You Really Need to See the "Top Doctor" for Your Health Concern?
It's the dirty secret every doctor knows. The doctors who pull in the big bucks and who have patients clamoring to see them often are practitioners who ignore some concept of evidence-based medicine.
'Sitting Disease': How Sendetary Jobs Ruin Your Health, And What You Can Do About It
Sedentary jobs can give you "sitting disease", a condition with far-reaching consequences ranging from diabetes and obesity to heart disease and osteoporosis. What can you do to combat this modern illness if you literally sit on your butt for a living?
It's Not a Good Idea to Share Your Personal Health Data
There is no such thing as harmless sharing of personal health statistics. There are reasons you should even keep information like your resting heart rate and your blood pressure to yourself.
Making Sense of Drug Prices
Drug prices keep going up and up and up some more. Is the only explanation for spiraling pharmaceutical costs greed on the part of the drug companies? Can we at least make some kind of sense of the price increases? And what can individuals do?
Safe Zones Dangerous to Mental Health
College isn't supposed to be the place young people hide from scary ideas. Safe zones to make sure no one has hurt feelings dampen academic discourse very likely do more harm than good, by shielding anxious people from opportunities for emotional growth.
Don't Secretly Record Your Doctor. Here's What to Do Instead.
Smartphones come with an app that allows patients to record everything their doctors say during doctor's visits and procedures, but don't do that. Do this instead.
Is Alzheimer's Reversible?
Experts project that over the next 35 years 13 million people in the United States and nearly 200 million people around the world will develop Alzheimer's disease. But a small-scale project suggests that Alzheimer's may be curable in its early stages.
Do You Really Know How to Cross the Street and Other Life Hacks
We all know the basics like how to cross the street, or how to avoid getting killed in a riot, don't we? Or maybe we don't. This article reveals 10 important life hacks everyone needs to know but not everyone does.
Trapped in Too Much Skin
Very few people manage to take off 100 pounds of fat or more and keep it off. Those who do often find themselves trapped in a robe of loose skin.