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- Rap Star Nelly: Fitness, Fatherhood, and a Health Foundation
How the chart-topping musician stays healthy while balancing a multi-faceted career, his family, and his work advocating for bone marrow transplants.
- Staying in Shape During Sports Season
WebMD helps teen boys get and stay in shape during sports seasons.
- Health Care Reform: What's Covered
Answers to WebMD readers' questions about what the health care reform law covers.
- Health Care Reform and Children: FAQ
WebMD explains how children and teens will be affected by health care reform.
- Health Care Reform and Pre-Existing Conditions: FAQ
WebMD explains how health reform will affect those with pre-existing conditions and how they can get insurance.
- Vaccines as Part of Preventative Health
Vaccines can protect you from serious diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, and meningitis. Immunization facts you should know.
- Health Care Reform and Preventive Care: FAQ
WebMD talks about the costs covered for preventive care under health reform. What will insurance cover? Will visits be free? Find out here.
- Shingles & Chickenpox: What's the Link?
If you've ever had chickenpox, you're at risk of developing shingles later in life. Learn how chickenpox and shingles are related.
- Your Travel Vaccine Checklist, Continent by Continent
Before you pack your bags, find out which shots you need to protect your health when visiting other countries.
- Vaccines for Hepatitis A & B
Learn how hepatitis A and B vaccines protect you from the viruses that can lead to this liver disease.
- Protecting Your Wallet From the Cost of Illness
Do you have financial protection against the costs of disability or disease? A guide to insurance: disability, life, long-term care, and supplemental health.
- Improve Your Odds for a Long and Healthy Life
These healthy lifestyle steps may forestall illnesses like heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer. They can also improve your quality of life and your chances of recovery if you develop a health problem.
- Leading Causes of Disability
Conditions such as arthritis, back pain, heart disease, cancer, depression, diabetes, and even pregnancy are among the leading causes of disability in the U.S – not catastrophic events like car crashes. Here's how to protect yourself against medical expenses and other costs.
- Health Care Reform and Settling Grievances: FAQ
WebMD helps you understand your rights with insurance and how to handle complaints or appeals if you feel you’ve been treated wrongly.
- Health Care Reform, Premiums, and Costs: FAQ
WebMD breaks down the costs of insurance. Learn about the premiums, cost of buying insurance plans, and more.
- FIT Connection: The Role of Move
Why does activity matter for a healthy lifestyle? The choices you make about exercising affect your eating, emotions, and energy, too.
- FIT Connection for Parents: Recharge
Why does your energy level matter for a healthy lifestyle? How you rest and relax affects your eating, exercising, and emotions, too.
- FIT Connection: Weight Management
How do your eating, exercising, emotions, and energy affect your weight? Learn what part each of these play in a healthy lifestyle.
- Understanding the FIT Platform
Living a fit life is about more than just exercise. Food, mood, exercise, and rest all play a role in fitness and a healthy weight. The FIT Platform explains.
- The FIT Connection for Parents
Eating, exercise, emotions, and energy link together in a healthy, fit lifestyle.
- FIT Connection: Mood’s Role in Health
Why do emotions matter for a healthy lifestyle? How you feel affects your eating, exercising, and energy, too.
- FIT Connection for Parents: Food
Why does eating matter for a healthy lifestyle and weight control? The choices you make about what you eat affect your exercising, emotions, and energy, too.
- Herbal Remedies for Overactive Bladder
Can herbal remedies help ease overactive bladder symptoms? Find out what experts say about OAB and herbal treatments.
- Pets' Amazing Abilities
WebMD talks to experts about whether dogs can sniff cancer, predict seizures, and more.
- Building an Earth-Friendly Baby Nursery
Designing your baby's room: Bring your newborn home to an environmentally-friendly nursery.
- Parenting: What Does It Mean to Raise a Child in a Green World?
Planning to raise your baby in an Earth-friendly way? What to consider for environment-conscious parenting
- Do You Know What You’re Putting on Your Baby?
Delicate infant skin can be sensitive to some skin care products. Look for ingredients in lotions, creams, and shampoos that can irritate baby's skin.
- Weight Loss Strategies for Overweight Kids
Help your child reach a healthy weight the safe way. Learn the goals and strategies that’s right for every age.
- Fast, Nutritious Meals to Feed Surprise Guests
Here's how to throw together a nutritious meal for surprise guests.
- Do You Kiss Your Dog?
Kissing your dog: There are risks. Know the facts.
- When Pain Interrupts Your Sleep
Don’t let pain interfere with your sleep. Find sleep solutions here.
- How Sleep Changes Throughout Your Life
Do you need more or less sleep as you age? Find out how your sleep needs change throughout life.
- How to Wreck Your Heart
When it comes to the heart’s health, there are some things you can’t control -- like getting older, or having a parent with heart disease. But there are many more things you can do to lower chances of sabotaging your ticker.
- 16 Signs You're Too Strict With Your Kids
Amy Chua’s recent memoir has fueled debates about whether American parents are too lenient with their kids. WebMD looks at the signs parents are too strict and how to set reasonable boundaries.
- Easy High-Fiber Breakfasts
How to make quick, healthy, high-fiber breakfasts that will satisfy your hunger.
- Kissing Secrets Revealed
WebMD talks about kissing, how it strengthens romance, and how to kiss better.
- Green Cleaning Spruces Up Environment
Green cleaning products are in. From kitchen sprays and bathroom scrubs to dishwashing detergents and liquid soaps, manufacturers all seem to be going au naturel.
- Should Your Child Get the HPV Vaccine?
WebMD discusses the arguments for and against HPV vaccination and explains the risks and benefits associated with it.
- What Wears Down Your Teeth
With good care, teeth can last a lifetime. But chewing, brushing, and grinding can wear them down. Here's how to protect your teeth.
- Work With Your Child's Personality
Help kids exercise more and help kids eat better. Use your child’s temperament to make forming healthy habits easier on both of you.
- 12 Healthy Snacks Kids Will Love
Have you run out of ideas for kids’ snacks that are both healthy and delicious? Try these creative combos.
- Getting Too Much of Vitamins And Minerals
Find out why taking too many vitamins and minerals can be unhealthy and even dangerous. Be sure you’re getting the right amount.
- 9 Surprising Foods That May Raise Your Cholesterol
Watch out for these 9 foods that may raise your LDL (bad) cholesterol.
- Surviving Without Smoke: Month 1
Want to quit smoking? Simple solutions to fight the cigarette urge and stop smoking.
- 8 Ways to Help Your Doctor Make the Right Diagnosis
It’s not always easy to find the right diagnosis, especially when your symptoms are vague or common. And unfortunately, some of the time doctors come up with a misdiagnosis. Here are eight ways to help your doctor make the right diagnosis.
- Carcinoid Tumors: When Surgery Isn't an Option
When carcinoid tumors become advanced, surgery may not be an option. Fortunately, there are other treatments available to help manage your tumors and ease your symptoms.
- Cancer: Should You See a Specialist?
No matter what type of cancer you have -- or whether you need surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or all three -- should you see a doctor who specializes in your particular type of cancer? Or will a generalist do?
- 5 Tips for Better Work-Life Balance
WebMD guides you through 5 practical steps toward better work-life balance.
- HPV Vaccines and Adults: Expert Q&A
WebMD explains what the HPV vaccine is, who needs to get it, and possible side effects.
- Whooping Cough Vaccine for Adults
WebMD discusses the benefits and side effects of the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine.