Drugs and Medications Features
- Vaccines for College Students: Expert Q&A
WebMD lists the vaccines college students need and answers common questions about the vaccine guidelines for college students.
- Shingles Vaccine: Expert Q&A
WebMD talks about who needs a shingles vaccine, when to get it, side effects, and explains more about the vaccine.
- How to Make the Most of Your Vet Visit
Taking your dog or cat to the vet? Get expert tips on how to make your vet visit effective.
- Nutrition for Women at Every Age
Certain nutrients are especially important for women at particular times of life. This article covers nutrition needs for women in their teens and during their childbearing and senior years.
- Osteoporosis Tips: Build Stronger Bones
Building strong bones now may protect you from osteoporosis later. How diet and exercise can help strengthen your bones.
- Helping Kids Who Fear Vaccines
WebMD gives tips for helping a child who is afraid of getting a shot. Learn how parents can make the vaccine process go smoothly.
- Clues You Might Have Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Wondering if you may have obstructive sleep apnea? Here are some common signs of sleep apnea, from sleep experts.
- How to Sleep Easier With Your CPAP Machine
These top 5 tips from sleep experts can help you adjust to a CPAP machine – to sleep and live better with sleep apnea.
- Got Pregnancy? Get Exercise
The right kinds of exercise are key to staying fit, healthy, and happy during your pregnancy.
- Is It Possible to Get Poisoned by the Sun?
There's no such thing as "sun poisoning," says our expert. But intense sun can cause a bad rash.
- WebMD 5: Our Expert's A's to Your Top Snooze Q's
Our sleep expert answers WebMD community members' questions about shut-eye -- including why we sleep, how much sleep we need, and whether or not there's such a thing as "beauty sleep."
- 6 Must-Eat Foods for Pregnancy
Want to eat right during pregnancy? Make sure these six super foods are on your menu.
- Revive Your Morning Beauty Routine
Get your skin going and glowing with our expert's a.m. skin care suggestions.
- Eggs: 8 Healthy Facts
From nutritional benefits to ancient symbolism, we've eight ten things we bet you didn't know about eggs.
- The Makeup of Makeup: Decoding Foundation
WebMD's basic guide to the history of, ingredients in, and proper color for your foundation.
- Evening Skin Care
We know you're tired. But taking even a few minutes for evening skin care can make a world of difference to the health and beauty of your skin.
- How I Got My Kid to Eat Brussels Sprouts
One mother explains how she got her children to say "yes" to this much-maligned vegetable.
- Why Loneliness Matters
Loneliness really does hurt -- not just your emotions, but your physical health, too. Here's how to reconnect.
- The Top 7 Pregnancy Myths
If you're pregnant, can you color your hair? Get a flu shot? Have sex? Here's what the experts say about the top old wives' tales about pregnancy.
- Prevent and Soothe Chapped Winter Hands
Winter can wreak havoc on your hands. WebMD gives tips for treating dry, chapped hands and preventing further damage.
- Found Your Kid Masturbating?
Here's what to do and what to say -- because how you react matters.
- Do We Really Lose Most of Our Heat Through Our Heads?
The idea that heat loss occurs primarily through our head is an old wives tale, says this expert in wilderness medicine.
- Having Trouble Sleeping?
We've got expert shut-eye solutions to six surprising sleep wreckers that might be keeping you up at night.
- Acupuncture Goes Mainstream
Doctors are increasingly turning to acupuncture to help conditions ranging from allergies to asthma, chronic pain, and female sexual dysfunction.
- The Truth About Beet Juice
Research finds potential health benefits from drinking beet juice. Learn more.
- Barbra Streisand's Change of Heart
What singer, actor, and director Barbra Streisand is doing to change the state of women's heart health.
- Alanis Morissette Works on Her Night Moves
Used to rocking and writing long past her bedtime, the mom-to-be/musician is taking her night life to a new level.
- Alanis Morissette Gets Ready to Rock Her Baby
Alanis Morissette reveals how pregnancy has helped her learn to slow down, eat up, and look at her body in a whole different way.
- Jeff Bridges: Hungry for Change
The veteran actor has made feeding millions of malnourished U.S. kids the heart of his life's work.
- 10 Tips to Cut Kids’ Screen Time
Help your family spend less time in front of TVs, computers, smartphones, and tablets.
- Reduce Teen Screen Time Without Stress
These tips can help parents reduce the time teens spend with TVs, computers, and phones and get them physically active instead.
- Healthy Eating Doesn’t Have to Be Hard
Experts offer advice and strategies for how to eat better as an easy family habit, with tips on making healthy food fun for preschoolers, kids, and teens.
- Use Your Mind for Fit Behavior Change
It's not easy for families to make the changes in behavior and habits to build a healthy lifestyle. These tips can help you get and stay motivated.
- Raise Active Kids When You’re Inactive
With fun activities for kids, it's not too late to change your family's approach to fitness.
- 6 Ways to Get Any Kid to Exercise
It’s tough to motivate kids who just don’t like exercise. But parents have more power than they realize.
- Diet 911: After You Overeat
You may feel discouraged after you realize you’ve eaten more than you planned, but don’t despair! Read these tips for getting back on track.
- Lupus and Sex: 8 Ways to Improve Your Sex Life
Symptoms of lupus, such as oral or genital sores, joint pain, and fatigue can make sex uncomfortable or even painful, but there are ways to improve your sex life.
- Lupus Medications and Treatments
Medical treatment for lupus has made great strides within the last 50 years. This article will help you understand lupus treatments, lupus medications and side effects, and important lifestyle changes you can make to improve your lupus symptoms.
- Lupus Fog and Memory Problems
If you have lupus and suffer from cognitive difficulties or forgetfulness, you may be experiencing lupus fog. Here’s how to work around some of your concentration and memory problems with lupus.
- Parenting With Lupus
It’s hard to be a parent with lupus, but don’t feel inadequate. Your children can understand and help you better with these tips.
- Lupus on the Job: Your Rights and Responsibilities
If you have lupus, this article will help you understand your rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act, and offer tips on how to talk with your employer about getting the accommodations you need.
- Exercises for Lupus
Exercise can help people with lupus build stronger muscles, prevent joint stiffness, control fatigue, and avoid weight gain. Here’s how to get started exercising when you have lupus.
- Lupus and Pregnancy: Tips for Living with Lupus While Pregnant
Although less than 50% percent of pregnancies in women with lupus have complications, all lupus pregnancies are considered high-risk. Here’s what women with lupus should know.
- Lupus and Family Support
This article offers tips on what to understand about lupus and how you can help support your loved one with lupus.
- Fighting Lupus Fatigue and Boosting Energy
If lupus fatigue is a problem for you, here are ways you can try to increase your energy while living with lupus.
- Lupus and Depression: 11 Ways to Help You Cope
If you have lupus and you feel sad for weeks at a time, you may be depressed.
- Alcohol and Pregnancy: Is 'A Little Bit' Safe?
WebMD discusses the myths and facts about drinking alcohol in pregnancy. Is just a little bit OK? Find out.
- Are You Turning Into Your Mom?
Just because your mother had a medical condition, does that mean you will too? WebMD discusses the role of genetics in several health scenarios.
- Diet Sodas Cause Weight Gain? Not so Fast
WebMD discusses the facts about diet soda and whether it truly causes weight gain.
- Your Quit-Smoking Fears Debunked
Don't let fears over quitting smoking keep you from getting healthy. Learn how to overcome worries over excess weight gain, withdrawal symptoms and more.