Drugs and Medications Features
- How Blogs Have Changed the World
Internet blogs are springing up left and right. WebMD tells you why this new trend is so hot.
- Top Cancer-Fighting Foods
Mounting evidence shows that the foods we eat weigh heavily in the war against cancer.
- Sally Field: An Osteoporosis Story
Sally Field, an actress known for playing strong women, tells of her battle against a bone-thinning disease.
- 'Silent Birth' Now a Noisy Controversy
The pregnancy of actress Katie Holmes -- partner of actor Tom Cruise -- has put a media spotlight on "silent birth."
- Give Your Body a Boost -- With Laughter
Is laughter the best medicine? Some researchers say yes, others need more evidence.
- 10 Signs You're a Micromanaging Parent
Child development experts explain why parental involvement sometimes goes too far.
- Fructose and Weight Gain: A Bad Rap?
Experts examine a controversy over claims that the sweetener known as fructose may be contributing to the obesity epidemic.
- Women's Top 5 Health Concerns
From heart disease to breast cancer to depression, WebMD gives you the inside info on why women are at high risk for these problems but may not know it.
- Natural Allergy Relief
Natural remedies may reduce allergy symptoms.
- Making Dinner Easier
The investment: About two hours of your time and $195. The idea: You assemble a batch of meals at a store that provides recipes, pre-prepared ingredients, and cooking facilities. The result: 12 entrees, ready to take home, freeze, and bake at your leisure.
- Time to Renew New Year's Resolutions
Spring is the perfect time to renew your New Year's resolutions -- or to make new ones.
- 10 Diet Rules Meant to be Broken
What the experts say when it comes to dieting rules.
- Why We Laugh
Laughter is more complicated -- and bizarre -- than you might think.
- Satiety: The New Diet Weapon
Losing weight -- for good - may be about creatively managing hunger.
- How to Cope With Tax-Time Stress
Experts explain ways to avoid the emotional storms of tax season.
- Kelly's Story: Going the Distance
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Foods to Help Keep Your Skin Healthy
How what you eat and drink can affect your skin
- Saving Money on Prescription Drugs
Ineligible for Medicare? State and pharmaceutical assistance programs can help you find the drug benefits you need
- How to Avoid Surprise Allergy Attacks
Tried-and-true methods to keep allergens from making you miserable.
- Conquer Your Allergies
You don't need to suffer if you have allergies. Here's how to lessen the blow.
- What's Your Drinking Personality?
Experts explore the differences in alcohol-induced behaviors.
- Managing Chemotherapy Side Effects
Simple tips for coping with the nausea, fatigue, and hair loss that can accompany chemotherapy.
- Avoid Weekend Weight Gain
How to enjoy the weekend with undoing the calorie counting you've done all week.
- Good Sleep: Can It Still Be Simple?
All's quiet, yet you still can't sleep. Do you really need a NASA-designed pillow or a computerized bed to fix your sleep problems?
- How to Protect Yourself Against Crime
Experts give advice on ways to fend off criminals -- and avoid danger in the first place.
- Are We Pushing the Antiaging Envelope?
Many are hoping getting Botox injections in their 20s and 30s can stop aging before it starts.
- Help Yourself
Tips to help you get the best care in the ER
- It's a Mad World
Why do you get so angry, and what is it doing to your health?
- A New Age of Celebrity Worship
Experts help you understand the good, the bad, and the ugly of being the world's biggest fan.
- Virtual Sex: Threat to Real Intimacy?
The online sexual revolution may be having an impact on real-world relationships.
- New Treatments for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
The rate of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has nearly doubled since the 1970s, but advances in treatments are offering new hope.
- Diagnostic Imaging: Beam Me Up Dr. McCoy
We're not quite at the Star Trek level yet with imaging technology, but recent advances are fine-tuning your medical care.
- Vitamins: Separating Fact From Fiction
Experts cut through the hype about the health benefits of vitamin supplements.
- Cut the Stress, Simplify Your Life
If stress is wearing you down, take some advice from those who have left their stress behind -- simplify your life.
- The Heart Speaks (Are You Listening?)
Loneliness, anger, and grief can break hearts as easily as high blood pressure. To heal the heart, feel the love.
- Diet and Rheumatoid Arthritis: How to Fix Fast and Simple Meals
Everyone wants to save time and energy in the kitchen. It's particularly important when aching joints from arthritis turn preparing a meal into a monumental task. Learn about fixing fast and simple meals.
- Fast & Simple Meals for Arthritis
Arthritis pain can make it hard to cook. Try these tricks to preparing easy and nutritious meals.
- Is Prostate Cancer Screening Still Necessary?
No one likes going for that annual physical exam. For many, the anxiety increases when it includes a cancer screening.
- When Your Memory Plays Tricks on You
Although autism severely limits social and work skills, which depend heavily on cues taken from context and setting, it may actually improve memory tasks not dependent on context.
- Diet and Fitness Trends
What the future holds for our eating and exercising habits.
- 10 Ways to Help a Loved One Lose Weight
How to be supportive of friends or family members who are beginning a weight loss plan.
- What's Ahead for Health in 2006
Experts make predictions for advances in health care.
- How to Sleep Like an Olympic Athlete
The same sleep strategies used by world-class athletes are also good for regular folks.
- Workouts That Help You Feel Better About Your Body
Yoga, Pilates, and other types of exercise may help people feel better about their bodies.
- Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Depression Symptoms
Several different mood disorders -- including anxiety and bipolar disorder -- cause symptoms of depression. Here are questions to ask your doctor to make sure you get the right treatment.
- Is It Really Depression?
Several mood disorders can cause symptoms of depression. This article tells you how depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder may sometimes seem alike, but are treated differently.
- Incontinence: A Woman's Little Secret
If you think urinary incontinence only affects older women, think again. Bladder control issues affect younger, active women, too -- are you one of them?
- Get Your Health Numbers in Check
Do your cholesterol or high blood pressure numbers have you down? Not to worry, there is hope.
- Heart Disease Detection Goes High Tech
Experts review the latest techniques that reveal whether you have heart disease.
- Is Your Baby on Track?
Check your child's stage of child development and learn the signs of developmental delays.