Healthy articles

Unless you are a parents and in fact preferably a mother yourself, it can be hard to have a clue about baby showers, what goes on during baby showers, or what gifts to buy for the expectant mom and her baby.

Have you been TTC (trying to conceive) for more than twelve months? If you have, here are some important considerations for choosing the best way forward.

Depending on the type of healthcare provider you have chosen for your prenatal care, you might have your first ultrasound scheduled during the first trimester, or the beginning of the second trimester. Most expecting moms agree ultrasounds are exciting!

Any pregnancy is life changing, and I bet you can t wait to share the news with family and friends. Yet, just about any article you will read about this subject will advise you to wait... at least for the first trimester to pass.

Music probably plays a powerful role in your life, but what does it do for your health? A lot, a huge body of scientific research suggests — music is very much a mental multivitamin that affects your everyday physical and cognitive functioning!

Girls do better in school than boys these days — but why? Could the way we approach physically active boys be shortchanging them, and what can we do to better meet their needs?

Potential risks of a vaccine are often what stop a parent from getting their child vaccinated. There have been many studies and discussions about side effects of various vaccinations, and this also includes the whooping cough vaccine.

Mosquito-born Zika fever is spreading through 20 countries in Latin America and has, even in the dead of winter, infected 31 people in the United States. A possible connection of this viral infection with a horrific birth defect has caused major alarm.

So, you've spotted a lump on your testicle? Of course you're worried about testicular cancer. How do you tell the difference between testicular cancer and the many other possible causes of testicular lumps?

Quick, painless, noninvasive, and relatively inexpensive, focused ultrasound may soon be used to destroy tumors without the need for surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation.