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- Are You a Wimp?
Experts offer tips on assertiveness at home, at work, and everywhere else.
- What Martha Stewart's Lessons Teach Us
When you're down and out, facing adversity, emotional resilience is a good thing.
- Assessing New Treatments for Breast Cancer
Heard about a new breast cancer treatment but not sure if it's right for you? These guidelines will help.
- New Treatments for Breast Cancer
These advances in treating breast cancer aren't on the horizon. They're here, right now.
- New Treatments for Breast Cancer: Talking With Your Doctor
Heard about a new breast cancer treatment you'd like to try? Partner with your doctor to find out more.
- Seeing Green: All About Jealousy
We all feel jealous from time to time but admitting it is the first step to overcoming it.
- Healthy Fingernails: Clues About Your Health
To the trained eye, nails can provide valuable clues about your overall health; and noticing and following up on those clues is the best way to maintain healthy fingernails.
- The ABCs of a Healthy Skin Diet
Eat your way to healthy, vibrant skin by getting enough super foods that nourish the skin. Experts offer tips on the foods in a healthy skin diet.
- Breast Cancer Survivors: Coping with Fears of Recurrence
Breast cancer survivors must cope with fears of recurrence. Learn coping strategies that help.
- Growing Pains: When Should Parents Worry?
Morning pain may mean something more serious is wrong with your child.
- Is It Growing Pains or Something More Serious?
Your child’s growing pains might be something else, like juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Find out how to tell the difference.
- Rev Up Your Energy
Boost energy with these four excellent tips.
- How to Short-Circuit a Cold -- Maybe
It seems everyone has a cold remedy, but do some actually work?
- Healthy Eating in an Imperfect World
No time to eat right? WebMD has the solution.
- Your 'Hunger Hormones'
How they affect your appetite and your weight
- Relief From Chronic Pelvic Pain
Many women -- and their doctors -- never realize the mysterious pain they feel has a diagnosis. But chronic pelvic pain can lead to serious complications, so be persistent in seeking treatment.
- Dorothy's Story: A Woman on a Mission
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- When Counting Sheep Fails: The Latest Sleep Medications
Learn about the new generation of sleeping pills for insomnia.
- Coping With Chronic Illness: What Goes Wrong
When it comes to self-managing chronic conditions, patients often make mistakes.
- Women: Single and Loving It
Are women better off alone? Marriage is no magic bullet for happiness, some say.
- Get Sexual for Ultimate Weight Loss
Bedroom Olympics may be key to fitness and weight loss.
- The Chocoholic's Survival Guide
Crazy for chocolate? Here's how to keep it from sabotaging your diet.
- Quality vs. Quantity: TV Guidelines for Kids
How does the amount and quality of TV-watching affect your child's development?
- It's Full of Fat and Helps You Lose Weight
Nuts are chocked full of healthy nutrients. Knowing how to make them part of your diet can help you reap all kinds of health benefits.
- What to Eat Instead of Fast Food
You're starving. The kids are starving. A cheeseburger and fries would be the easy fix. But let's face it: a Happy Meal is not necessarily a healthy meal. You need nutritious food you can grab fast, whether you're on the road or have just walked into the house.
- Biofeedback Trains Mind, Body to Make Changes
Biofeedback is helping many gain control over common health problems like migraines, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, epilepsy, diabetes, high blood pressure, and incontinence.
- Biofeedback Trains Mind, Body to Make Changes
Migraines, ADHD, high blood pressure, epilepsy, and incontinence can all benefit from the technique of biofeedback.
- Meditation Balances the Body's Systems
The mind, heart, and body can improve with regular meditation.
- A Healthy Life: Cancer Prevention and More
How to make the best food and lifestyle choices for cancer prevention.
- Gambling Wave Sets Stage for Addiction
Glamorization of gambling may create a new generation of addicts.
- Foods That Fight Winter Depression
When long nights bring on a long face, this can mean seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Here are some tips to help fight off the winter blues.
- Seven Diet Sins
The most common nutrition mistakes -- and how to avoid them.
- High Blood Pressure: The Invisible Health Risk
It's silence is deadly, but you can beat this common condition. Find out how.
- I'm Dreaming of a Light Christmas -- with Elaine Magee, MPH, RD
Keep holiday traditions and still eat in a healthy way.
- Talk About Tsunami With Your Children
Few children have been spared from the graphic and disturbing images that every hour stream across the airwaves. And those images do affect them, experts say.
- When You Don't Need a "Diet"
Losing added holiday pounds is as simple as eliminating 100 calories per day.
- Setting Good Expectations
Are you looking for love but finding disappointment? You may be asking for too much too soon. Five experts shed some light on what to expect from romance.
- Looking for Love: Understanding What You Need
Looking for love and finding frustration instead? Follow these five steps to increase your chances of finding lasting happiness.
- Chill out Your Appetite With Soups and Stews
These 6 nutritious tips (plus recipes!) will warm your taste buds this winter.
- Puttin' on the Glitz
If glamming it up seems way too time-consuming for your busy life, take heart. Fashion and beauty experts who spoke to WebMD shared 12 tricks of the trade that can help you put on the glitz in record time.
- Kids and Antidepressants: A Growing Problem
The FDA warned of a drug-suicide link this year. Are we rushing to medicate our kids or rushing to judgment about drugs that may truly help some of them?
- Supersized Nation: Bigger Burgers Still Rule
No. 5 of the Top 10 Stories of 2004: The low-carb diet is 'out' and portions are getting bigger. Can the obesity epidemic be fixed?
- Mother, May I? Late Motherhood Emerges
The number of women getting pregnant in their middle years is rising. But is later really better than never?
- 10 Overlooked Reasons to Quit Smoking
If you need more incentive to quit smoking, here are some reasons that you may not know about.
- Hot Diet and Fitness Trends for 2005
Low-carb is out; satiety is in.
- Get Closer to Your Mate
WebMD gives you five tips for a healthy relationship.
- Celebrity Tricks and Tips for Healthy Eating
Here are some easy tricks and tips for planning meals packed with taste, not calories.
- Carolyn's Story: Better Health and a Better Life
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Strategies for a Hangover-Free Holiday Season
Strategies for hangover-free holidays.
- Add Joy, Not Pounds, With Holiday Spirits
If you're trying not to gain weight during the holiday season, use these tips to keep your food plan on track -- especially if you drink alcohol.