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- Does Your Child Have Hearing Loss?
Some 12,000 American children are born each year with impaired hearing.
- Alternative Cancer Therapies Go Mainstream
Alternative Cancer Therapies Go Mainstream
- When Cybertherapy Goes Bad
As more and more people seek psychotherapy online, experts worry that charlatans may take advantage of them.
- Is Online Help Safe?
Attracted by the convenience, more and more people are seeking psychotherapy online. But are they really getting the treatment they need?
- Hearing Trouble
A simple test can tell you if your baby can hear all right, and make early, effective treatment possible.
- Acting Your Age
How the theater is helping a group of active seniors live fuller lives.
- How Far Would You Go for Cheaper Drugs?
Thousands of Americans are crossing the border to get the best deal on their prescriptions.
- Getting Cheap Drugs Without Crossing the Border
As more Americans trek to Canada or Mexico to buy critical prescription drugs they cannot afford here, some U.S. doctors have a devised a system they say will help.
- The Next Viagra?
Uprima was supposed to be the next hot drug for erectile dysfunction. What happened?
- The Hyperactive Child
Study suggests Ritalin is still the best medication for ADHD.
- Should You Be Tested for Alzheimer's?
If you're terrified of the disease -- or it runs in your family -- you might want to get tested. Here's why.
- Brewing Trouble
Are you confusing a coffee buzz with a panic attack? A surprising look at some anxiety disorders.
- Forced to Live
Marshall Klavan wanted to die. His physicians wanted him to live. Who had the right to decide?
- Making Your Last Wishes Known
Laws in every state have made it clear: You have the fundamental right to make a decision in advance about whether to accept or refuse medical treatment if you become gravely ill.
- Making Your Last Wishes Known
Making Your Last Wishes Known
- Thinking Pain Away
Can imagining a big, red balloon help kids deal with stomach pain? Some pediatricians think it just might. Second in a two-part series on kids and alternative medicine.
- Can You Cope Better?
Absolutely. And the secret may be as simple as learning to give thanks.
- Talk About Death
When a loved one is dying, how do you find the right words?
- Human Genome
Opportunities Are Boundless, but Only Time Will Tell
- After a Heart Attack
Fear of a second heart attack may be the biggest obstacle to an active sex life. Fortunately, you can overcome it.
- How to Be a Comeback Kid
What does it take to bounce back from adversity?
- What a Caring Teacher Can Do
Caring teachers play an important role.
- What a Caring Teacher Can Do
A good teacher can help a child be resilient.
- Private Cord Blood Banking: Who Owns the Blood?
Once tossed in the trash, umbilical cord blood is now worth big money, thanks to medical discoveries and entrepreneurial efforts like private for-profit blood banks.
- How to Be a Comeback Kid.
How to Be a Comeback Kid
- Can Your Cholesterol Be Too Low?
Unlike a lot of men, the writer never worried about cholesterol -- until some surprising studies linked low cholesterol to violent behavior.
- Can Your Cholesterol Be Too Low?
Unlike a lot of men, the writer never worried about cholesterol -- until some surprising studies linked low cholesterol to violent behavior.
- Can the Umbilical Cord Save Lives?.
Once tossed in the trash, umbilical cords are now thought to help kids with a host of ailments. So why aren't more of them being saved?
- Herbs for Kids: What's Safe, What's Not
Herbs: what's safe and what's not for kids.
- Anatomy of a Decision
Cord blood banking has been available for only five years, and parents who hear about it may never have thought deeply about it before.
- Tips for Getting Vitamin C
It's easy: Just remember your fruits and vegetables
- How to Defend Yourself
Tickborne illnesses, such as Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain spotted fever, can be prevented if you don't let the nasty bugs bite you in the first place.
- Too Old for a Bypass?
Many elderly people are often turned down for heart surgery.
- When Sex Is a Problem
Men have Viagra. But what about women with a low libido?
- Hooked Online
The Internet brings people together from all over the world. But when users become obsessed, their lives can fall apart.
- Internet Addict?
At what point does Internet surfing become so compulsive that psychologists would call it an addiction?
- Mommy, Am I Fat?
How to help your children like themselves just the way they are.
- Learning to Like Themselves
If you are the parent of a son or daughter who seems unhappy with how he or she looks, here are some tips for fostering healthy self-acceptance.
- If a Child Is Overweight
Here are a few ways that parents can help.
- Swimming Pool Safety
The Most Delicate Rule of Water Quality: Keep the Poop Out of the Pool
- Keeping Costs Low.
Most HMOs use financial rewards and penalties for health care professionals to achieve cost-effective treatment.
- Denied Medical Care?
Nothing can be more frustrating or confusing than to show up at your doctor's office with symptoms of a health problem, only to be told you can't get the diagnostic test you want, a referral to a specialist, or a specific medical treatment.
- Kids in the Water
Kids swim safely in the summertime.
- Pushing Prozac
Antidepressants are as common as candy. But who's weighing the risks?
- Alternative Medicine Checks in to the Hospital
Studies Show Acupuncture, Massage Help Heart Patients After Surgery
- Live Long, Live Well
More people than ever before are living to the ripe age of 100 -- many of them in fine health.
- Let the Senior Games Begin
One sign of the growing presence of vigorous older people is the National Senior Games Association, a not-for-profit entity that promotes health and fitness and coordinates state Senior Games and Senior Olympics organizations.
- Fitness for the Long Term
You don't have to be a Senior Olympian or a genetically souped-up centenarian to reap the rewards of exercise and good nutrition. It is never too soon, or too late to start getting in shape.
- Child-Proofing Basics
The kitchen and bathroom are two of your home's most hazardous areas, where curious toddlers can easily find attractively packaged toxic agents.
- As Texas Goes, So Goes the Nation?
The agreement reached last month in the lawsuit brought by the State of Texas against Aetna U.S. Healthcare may have solved the company's problems there, but two other key states, New York and Connecticut, are moving forward with probes aimed at reviewing the insurance giant's practices.