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- The Dangers of High Cholesterol
High cholesterol is tough on arteries and your health. Here's how to fight back
- Help for Medical Billing Errors
Overwhelmed by medical costs? Worried you've been overcharged? It may be time to call in a medical billing advocate.
- Parker Posey’s New Role
Indie star Parker Posey talks to WebMD about playing a single mom on the television show "The Return of Jezebel James," and if she wants to have children in real life. Plus, her best and worst health habits.
- Too Young for Menopause
What causes premature menopause and what can you do? Get information about early menopause here.
- 6 Steps to Changing Bad Eating Habits
If you're serious about eating healthier and losing weight, you need to shake it up, change those bad eating habits, and start thinking differently about your diet and lifestyle.
- Fatigued or Full Throttle: Is Your Thyroid to Blame?
Feeling all revved up, even at bedtime? Or maybe your throttle’s on idle with symptoms of depression, fatigue, and weight gain. In both cases, the root cause may be your thyroid.
- School Shootings: The Columbine Generation Copes
Marjorie LIndholm, a Columbine High School shooting survivor, talks with WebMD about her experience and offers advice in the wake of school shootings.
- A Conversation With a Columbine Survivor
Marjorie LIndholm, who survived the 1999 shootings at Columbine HIgh School in Littleton, Colo., shares her advice on dealing with school shootings.
- Life After Divorce: 3 Survival Strategies
Three survival strategies for coping with the aftermath of divorce and moving beyond the pain.
- The Emotional Toll of Alzheimer's
When Alzheimer's patients build new bonds in a nursing home, it can have a serious impact on a family. Experts explain how families can cope.
- Parents’ Potluck: Tips on Raising Healthy Kids
Wondering how to get your children to eat right, or behave on long trips? WebMD turned to our members to get their best tips on child nutrition and raising a healthy child.
- School Lunches, Healthy Choices
Packing up a healthy school lunch just got easier -- with these fast, tasty tips.
- Simple Healthy Snacks for Kids
Children hungry between meals? Try these healthy, simple snack ideas to keep them going strong.
- It's Not Your Mother's Skin -- Or Is It?
With age, the skin suffers natural wear-and-tear, just like the rest of our bodies. But much of what we think of as natural aging is in fact due to sun exposure and other factors. That means it can be avoided -- and it's never too late to start.
- Make and Take Meals: Fast-Food Alternatives
Good nutrition and good fast food go hand in hand -- when you start with these quick hints.
- Love on the Brain
Scientists peeking inside our brains and psyches have more clues than ever about the biology of love -- why we're attracted, why we fall so hard and what makes us stay.
- How We Love Now
Long-distance relationships, office romances, and marriages arranged online are new items on the romance menu.
- Modern Love Glossary
From 'booed up' to 'starter marriage,' we give you a fun guide to the latest phrases about love.
- Children With Special Dietary Needs
Get the facts about your kids’ food allergies and intolerances in this Q and A with an allergy expert.
- Is Your Child Spoiled?
From child development experts: How to spot a spoiled child, and what to do about it.
- Timeline of a Love Affair
Just what is it that makes two people fall in love, hard and fast?
- Grocery Shopping With School-Age Kids
School-age children learn important lessons in nutrition while grocery shopping. Here are ways to make the most of the experience.
- A Fresh Look at Hysterectomy
For quicker hysterectomy recovery, many women are choosing laparoscopy. Just make sure your surgeon is skilled. Here’s what women should know about hysterectomy.
- Love in the Time of Caller ID
Technology has its limits and its perils because it allows us to reach out to, but not touch, someone. Instead, we’re substituting emoticons for emotions, and stripping the intimacy of in-person encounters from the small daily kindnesses of personal relationships.
- The Lighter Side of Parenting
Can playful games help you effectively discipline your child? This expert says yes, and shows you how.
- 15 Healthy Lifestyle Tips After Your Hysterectomy
Find 15 tips and simple ways to nurture your health after a hysterectomy – and keep weight and stress under control.
- John Gray on His Book, 'Why Mars and Venus Collide'
John Gray describes the epidemic of stress plaguing us today -- and what men and women can do to meet in the middle for stress relief while respecting gender differences.
- Modern Life Takes a Toll on Our Hearts
An expert describes antidotes to the heart-damaging lifestyle of today's stress-filled world.
- Chocolate's Dark Secret
To make chocolate even more drool-worthy, researchers are discovering this ancient treat may have some modern health benefits.
- Love and Politics
Are political differences hurting your relationships? Learn to talk politics without pushing away the ones you love.
- Getting Pregnant: Easy Ways to Encourage Fertility
Having trouble getting pregnant? Standard fertility treatments can usually help, but so can a host of other, less costly techniques -- some of which couples can try on their own.
- 9 Steps to End Chronic Worrying
Experts explain how to reduce excessive worrying that can have mental and physical effects.
- 10 Motivational Tips to Keep You Healthy
Here, WebMD shares the top 10 motivational tips from experts on how to stick to your health goals.
- Serotonin: 9 Questions and Answers
There are many researchers who believe that an imbalance in serotonin levels may influence mood in a way that leads to depression.
- Strength Training: Building Arm Muscles
Building arm muscles is important for doing the activities of daily living as well as for preventing loss of muscle mass. Here are some basic exercises for building biceps and triceps strength.
- Strength Training: Building Chest Muscles
Building chest muscles yields more than a chiseled chest. Strength training exercises for the chest protect against diabetes and help you retain muscle mass during aging and weight loss. Here are some exercises for building chest muscles.
- Strength Training: Building Shoulder and Back Muscles
You use your shoulders every time you move your arms, but back muscles get less exercise. Here are some basic exercises for building shoulder and back strength.
- Lookin’ Good: A Man's Guide
What to look for in male grooming products, from skincare, shampoo, and hair styling to shaving creams, aftershaves, and razor burn remedies. WebMD has asked the experts to describe the important products men should know in order to be groomed the way they want to be groomed.
- The Best Diets for Men
Having trouble finding a good diet? The best diet plan for you may be the one you create yourself. Here’s a survey of popular weight loss plans and advice from one man who tried many of them.
- Dealing With the Jerk at Work
You can confront the office jerk and reclaim your sanity at work. Human resource pros show you how.
- Child-Free Couples: Thriving Without Kids
Relationship experts and couples who made the decision not to have kids reveal the secrets of a successful childfree marriage.
- Conquering Fear of Public Speaking
The ABCs of giving presentations without palpitations.
- Fat-Busting Injections Under Scrutiny
Controversy surrounds a treatment that promises to dissolve fat with a series of injections.
- Mommy Makeover: A Plastic Surgery Trend
A growing number of women are undergoing mommy makeovers -- plastic surgery procedures that restore their post-pregnancy bodies.
- Stress Relief Strategies to Ease Allergy Symptoms
Do daily pressures have your allergy symptoms spiking? Try these simple tips for stress relief.
- Allergy Tips: Your Outdoor Exercise Checklist
Skipping outdoor exercise during allergy season? Our allergy tips can help get you active outdoors -- today.
- Do You Hate Your Friend’s Mate?
You love your friend, but can’t stand his or her new love interest. How can you clear your conscience without ruining the friendship?
- Are You a Workaholic?
You might as well face it -- you’re addicted to work. Could your workaholism be hurting you?
- 10 Health Benefits of Regular Exercise for Men
Regular, moderate exercise that even a couch potato can manage can provide 10 important health benefits to men — including a longer life. Find out how exercise can help you.
- Exercise Addiction in Men
Do you organize exercise around your life or your life around exercise? Find out how to know if you have an exercise addiction.