Drugs and Medications Features
- New Methods for Targeting Cancer
Doctors and scientists aim for cancer's weak spots with targeted therapies.
- Quick Weight Loss or Quackery?
Even smart people fall prey to quick weight-loss gimmicks, WebMD explains why.
- 50 Years of Milestones in the Fight Against Cancer
Today people can live for years with some forms of cancer; other forms of cancer can be cured. Here are just a few of the milestones in the war on cancer, and some of the researchers who made them.
- Finding a Personal Fitness Trainer
They're popular and they get results, but making a good match takes effort.
- Top 10 Member Weight-Loss Tips
Here's some great advice from people who've been there.
- Anger Management: Counting to 10 and Beyond
Even though counting to 10 still works, it helps to add a few extra anger management techniques to your arsenal. Find out more.
- The Passion of the Movies
'The Passion of the Christ' is the latest to show the power of movies to move us.
- Let It Go: Taming Soft Addictions
Downtime is America's favorite pastime, but could you really be suffering from a soft addiction?
- Worry vs. Reality: The Real Risks You Face
When it comes to evaluating medical risk -- or risk of any kind, for that matter -- it gets very personal, and when we're weighing threats to ourselves or to others we care about, we tend to think with our hearts rather than our heads. We explain real risk
- Between Friends: Living Donors
It's a trend that's changing transplant medicine. More and more people are willing to donate a kidney or part of a liver - while they're still alive.
- Restrict Calories, Revive Your Life
Research on animals shows a restricted-calorie diet may have health benefits and slow the hands of time.
- Take Off Those Last 10 Pounds
These tips can help you get to your goal.
- Irritable Male Syndrome: Fact or Fiction?
As men age, their testosterone naturally goes down. But does it cause them to become grumpy old men?
- Losing Weight With Cupid
Kissing and cuddling up can put the fun factor into losing weight.
- 10 Secrets to a Better Love Life
10 tips to achieving a better sex life with your partner.
- 10 Secrets to a Better Love Life
Too much boredom in your bedroom? Revitalize your sex life with these 10 tips.
- Tearooms Offer a Healthy Buzz
Oodles of antioxidants are contained in green tea, black tea, even oolong tea.
- 10 Tips to Improve Your Health at Work
Avoid those snacks, take a walk during lunch, and clean that keyboard, and you're on your way to a healthier workday.
- Staying Healthy a Challenge for Presidents
President Bush's excellent health contrasts with other U.S. presidents.
- Spice Up Your Sex Life - No Matter What Your Size
Have you put your sex life on hold while you wait for those last 10 (or even 100) pounds to disappear? While losing weight and getting healthier can definitely get those urges going again, depriving yourself of romance in the meantime is not a good idea.
- 5 Ways Pets Can Improve Your Health
Owning a pet can ward off depression, lower blood pressure, and boost immunity. It may even improve your social life.
- Tearooms Offer a Healthy Buzz
Tea is gaining ground over coffee, and tearooms are popping up everywhere. The health benefits of tea are one compelling reason.
- What Does Low-Carb Really Mean?
Unlike 'low-calorie' or 'reduced-fat' claims, the FDA has not legally defined what 'low carbohydrate' means which has many people guessing.
- Boxers vs. Briefs: Increasing Sperm Count
For about one-half of couples with fertility problems, experts say low sperm count is the cause. But maybe something as simple as changing the kind of underwear a man wears can make a difference.
- Depression Often Starts in Childhood
Depression rates are rising and researchers and clinicians now say that depression often begins in childhood.
- Food Cravings: Taking Back the Power
In the previous chapter I told you that for long years of my life, emotional eating and food took the place of some very important parts of living. For example, I had few meaningful relationships with other people, and when I moved away from them, I seldom stayed in touch. My most meaningful day-to-day "relationship" was with -- food.
- Breaking Free -- My Battle with Emotional Eating
Talking to the mirror: "How can I be so fat? This isn't my body! This isn't me." But it was me, feeling miserable about my fat, distorted body through more than five decades of helplessness against the power of my food cravings and emotional eating.
- What Is Emotional Eating? My Story
Do you remember when your out-of-control emotional eating first began? I can, even though it was more than five decades ago. I was 9, a skinny, active child -- and suddenly I was stuffing myself with entire cans of spaghetti for lunch, two or more desserts at dinner, and, throughout the day, all the soda, candy, cupcakes, and potato chips I could buy or find.
- My Relationship With Food: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - But So Worth It
Newsflash: "This just in -- Diana Potter wants the world to know the truth about her longstanding on-and-off relationship with food. In a hastily called press conference following the explosive announcement that she's ending her career as a professional overeater, Potter said today:
- The "Food-Family Connection": Letting Go at Last
Everyone's emotional eating origins are uniquely personal.
- To Start Losing, Start Loving
Getting over emotional battles can be the key to losing weight.
- Fat, Funny Girl: It's No Joke
"I can lose 10 ugly pounds anytime I want -- I'll just cut off my head!" Do you use humor to make light of your emotional eating and your weight? Make jokes about overeating and being fat as a way of getting along with other people? I was a Grand Champion at it.
- Why the Super Bowl Matters
On Super Bowl Sunday, one team will claim victory and the other, defeat. But psychologically, many of their fans will wind up winning -- no matter the score.
- Calories Through the Ages
How to avoid gaining weight in your 40s and up.
- Vitamin Essentials as We Age
Vitamin A? Vitamin C? Vitamin B? How do you know which ones to take? How much should you take? Here’s what you need to know.
- Silent Risk: Women and Heart Disease
Heart disease kills half a million American women each year. So why are women more afraid of breast cancer?
- Movie Therapy: Using Movies for Mental Health
Cinema therapy can have real benefits on mental health.
- Beating Winter's Woes
If your mood is as cold and dark as your landscape, you're in good company. But here's how you can ease that seasonal slump.
- How to Deal With Diet Saboteurs
When you're trying to lose weight, often your friends and loved ones become the greatest obstacle. Learn how to turn these diet saboteurs into diet supporters.
- Winter Wonderland of Safety Tips
From teaching your young drivers how to handle snowy roads, to knowing when it's just too darn cold for your kids to venture out, WebMD has some safety tips on how you and your kids can safely enjoy the winter weather.
- Back Pain Tips: Help With Housework
Follow these five simple rules to protect your back while you do housework.
- Eat, Exercise, Relax, and Sleep Your Way to Better Sex
Better sex doesn't just involve technique. Keeping a fit mind and body can increase your enjoyment of bedroom antics.
- Eat, Exercise, Relax, and Sleep Your Way to Better Sex
Thought about leading a healthier lifestyle but haven't gotten around to doing it? Here's a possible incentive: Experts say people who are mentally and physically fit are more likely to have good sex lives.
- Do You Need an Air Filter?
If you are plagued by allergies and you've done all you can to reduce the allergens in your home, an air filter just might help you.
- Prevent Skin Damage Before It Starts
To maintain healthy skin and reduce the risk of further damage at midlife, Tina Alster, MD, clinical professor of dermatology at Georgetown University, recommends the following regimen.
- Top 10 Protein Foods
No doubt about it, protein is good for you -- and can even help you shed those unwanted pounds. But (and you knew there was a "but," right?), it's important to eat the right amount and the right kind of protein to get the lifelong weight-loss results you want.
- Skin Cancer Danger: Not Just in Summer
Snow on the ground doesn't mean you don't have to worry about sun exposure. Sunburns -- and skin cancer -- can happen even in winter months.
- Help for Battered Men
Domestic violence befalls mostly women, but men are victims, too.
- Erectile Dysfunction as Warning Sign
Impotence, while not to be taken lightly, isn't a life-threatening condition on its own. Men don't actually need sex to stay alive (no matter what they may tell their wives). But impotence, also known as erectile dysfunction, can in fact portend some deadly health problems.
- Parenting Tips for the Holidays
Get parenting tips to help ease holiday stress with your children.