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- Pregnancy Gear 101: Guide to Essential Pregnancy Gear
Everyone’s pregnancy experience is unique, but certain types of pregnancy gear can help smooth the way no matter what type of pregnancy you have. Here's WebMD trimester-by-trimester guide to essential pregnancy gear.
- The Essential Pregnancy Gear List for Expectant Moms
A trimester-by-trimester list and explanation of the essential gear you'll need during your pregnancy.
- Massage Therapy for Stress Relief and Much More
Experts describe massage tips you can try on yourself to ease headaches, back pain, and to help you relax.
- Colon Cleansers: Are They Safe?
Experts discuss whether colon cleansers are safe and effective.
- Foods to Help You Lose Weight
Looking for foods to help you lose weight? These five tips will help you zero in on the foods that make you thin.
- The Dos and Don'ts of Counting Calories
Experts explain the right way and wrong way of counting calories to lose weight or maintain weight.
- Accurate or Not? At-Home Cholesterol Tests and Blood Pressure Monitors
The advantages and disadvantages of checking your cholesterol and blood pressure with at-home cholesterol tests and blood pressure monitors.
- Food-Related Illness: Playing It Safe
The best defense is a good offense when it comes to food-related illnesses.
- Exercise for Cancer Patients: Fitness After Treatment
Surviving cancer and making it through cancer treatment are major accomplishments. Most, if not all, survivors find a new priority in life: keeping cancer from returning. The latest research suggests that exercise for cancer patients may help.
- The Athlete's Guide to Exercise-Induced Asthma
Just what is exercise-induced asthma, why does it happen, and how can it be managed? WebMD consulted the experts to find out the answers to these questions, as well as tips for controlling symptoms of exercise-induced asthma -- whether you're a casual athlete or a superstar.
- Testicular Cancer: Self-Exams at Home
The biggest key to beating testicular cancer is detecting it early. Simple testicular cancer self-exams can play a part in catching this disease in its earliest stages.
- Therapy for Teens: What to Expect
Many teens are in therapy today as a way to gain greater insight into the way they think, act and react.
- Losing Weight as a Couple: Double Trouble or Twice the Determination?
Couples loosing weight should recognize they each have different needs.
- The Dating Game: When's the Right Time for Sex?
Whether you’re new to the dating scene, a regular player, or jumping back into the game after a long hiatus, the same questions about dating rules apply: How soon do you lean over for that first kiss? Is it too early for a steamy make-out session? And last -- but by no means least -- how do you know when the time is right for sex?
- The 5 Most Common Beauty Questions – and Some Helpful Solutions
Answers to the most common questions about skin care and beauty.
- Is Fasting Healthy?
Although fasting has been practiced for thousands of years, it's still a subject of intense medical debate. WebMD consulted experts on weight loss and fasting for answers.
- Holiday Asthma Triggers for Kids
Dusty decorations, live trees laden with last summer’s mold and pollen, a surprise new kitten or puppy on Christmas morning are a cornucopia of asthma triggers for children.
- 3 Common Conditions Women Don't Talk About: Incontinence, Lack of Desire and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Shame or embarrassment my keep women from seeking help for these three common, but treatable, problems.
- Get Active to Lower Triglycerides & Cholesterol
A sedentary life can keep your bad cholesterol levels high and your good levels low. Here’s how to begin an exercise program to help lower cholesterol.
- High Cholesterol: What It Can Do to You
High risk cholesterol is often silent, damaging arteries without symptoms. Do you know the risks?
- Silent No More
Literally millions upon millions of women live with the perceived shame of frequent urination, excessive sweating, gas, and other embarrassing conditions. They just don't want to talk about.
- Sex, Exercise, and Stress Incontinence
Workouts and romance may both trigger accidental incontinence but stress incontinence treatments can bring relief.
- 4 Medications That Can Cause or Worsen Incontinence
Many medications can worsen or cause incontinence. Find out which medications are the worst offenders.
- 5 Beauty Tips Every Woman Should Know
Looking your best doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. Experts say most of us really only need to pay attention to a few basic beauty tips -- essentials that can help you look and feel great without spending a lot of time or money.
- 8 Diet Motivation Tips for Success
Can't lose weight? Try these diet motivation tips for success.
- Control Your Winter Appetite
How to avoid winter weight gain.
- Advice for a Good Marriage
WebMD consulted the marriage and relationship experts to learn the best advice for a good marriage – five secrets to long-lasting love.
- Chronic Pain Relief: New Treatments
New advances in drugs and technology mean there are now better solutions for chronic pain relief.
- '5-Second Rule' Rules, Sometimes
Experts explore whether it's safe to eat food that's made quick contact with the floor.
- Madonna's Fountain of Youth
Ever wonder how Madonna seemingly cheats age? WebMD reveals her secrets.
- Role Reversal
Actress Lorraine Bracco plays a psychiatrist on TV. She's also battled depression in her real life.
- Bathroom Scales Don't Tell The Whole Story
Experts rate the best and worst in body-fat measurement devices.
- New Thinking About Alzheimer's Treatment
Using powerful new drug-screening technologies, researchers are identifying dozens, perhaps hundreds of possible targets for drugs aimed at preventing, treating, or slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
- Popular Diets of the World: The Latin Diet
The traditional Latin diet is simple and healthy -- full of fresh fruits and vegetables, beans, and one-dish meals.
- Hair Removal: For Men Only
Experts report that more and more men are opting for the same grooming rights as women – including hair removal for smooth body skin.
- 15 Secrets of Happy Families
Experts fill you in on a few of the secrets of happy families. You, too, can experience some of the domestic bliss that seemed previously reserved just for TV families.
- Choosing the Right Toys for the Right Age
Young children generally aren’t fussy when it comes to their baby toys or kids toys -- but parents should be. Toys are more than just playthings. Though they should be fun, they should also be age-appropriate toys.
- TV Violence -- a Cause of Child Anxiety and Aggressive Behavior?
TV violence and children has become a hot topic -- studies show that extensive viewing of television violence may cause anxiety in children and possibly make children more aggressive.
- 23 Ways to Reduce Wrinkles
WebMD asked the experts what really works to reduce wrinkles and found 23 ways experts you can make a difference. From diet to wrinkle fillers, find it all here.
- Mary J. Blige Resolves to Be Healthy
R&B and hip-hop soul sensation Mary J. Blige reveals the inspiring fitness, food, and anger-management lessons that are driving her on a powerful journey of personal and professional transformation.
- Winning the Race Against Cancer
Battling cancer and depression inspired WebMD Community member Angela Current to start living the life she'd always wanted.
- 8 Secrets to Diet Success
Diet experts explain 8 diet success tips to help you stick to your diet plan.
- Forgive and forget
Forgiveness may bring enormous benefits to the person who gives that gift -- including lower blood pressure, a stronger immune system, and a drop in stress hormones, according to recent research.
- S. Epatha Merkerson Crusades Against Smoking
Law & Order's S. Epatha Merkerson sounds the alarm on the dangers of tobacco and the grim reality of lung cancer.
- Pain Relief & Breakthrough Pain
If you're experiencing breakthrough pain, new fast-acting narcotics may offer control -- and pain relief.
- Grooming Essentials for Men: Skin Care and Hair Products
Skin care and hair products aren’t just for women. See which products can help create a well-groomed man.
- Addictive Pursuit of Pearly Whites?
Some are taking the attainment of white teeth to the extreme by exclusively -- and excessively -- using over-the-counter teeth-whitening products.
- Exercise for Osteoporosis
Health experts recommend exercise for osteoporosis; here's how you can get it.
- Age-Fighting Skin Treatments for Men
From Botox to chemical peels, five skin treatments that can help men look younger without surgery.
- Choosing To Be Happy
A growing number of psychologists say you can choose to be happy -- by simply making the effort to monitor the workings of your mind and choosing happiness.