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INTERACTIVE HEALTH
-- Thanks to the National Strength and Conditioning Association for their assistance with this interactive feature. Take the quiz "How Fit Are
Your Feet?" to determine if you're in need of a 75,000-mile foot tuneup.
Take the hearing quiz and
see how you compare with fellow onliners. Then, find out what you need
to know about hearing loss. Plus, we've searched across
the Web to bring you the best health links.
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Browse our archive of "Eat Smart" columns with new, easy access to healthful recipes from Jean Carper.
Also, look into our archive of "Q&A:Fitness" advice.
How to use special light boxes to help beat the winter blues
HIPPOTHERAPY: HORSEBACK RIDING HELPS
EDUCATION: THE NEW P.E.
SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAMS GAIN MOMENTUM:
Citing statistics that show more people die of suicide than homicide, experts launch a national strategic plan to tackle suicide as a major health problem.
DR. BOB ARNOT
A SURPRISING WAY TO GET
PREGNANT
Each year, injuries kill more young people than illness. Here are the hazards
and how to prevent injuries.
Odd urges hound people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. But researchers
are learning more all the time about how to relieve the torment.
Do cells remember? What if cells in donor hearts or other organs actually
had memories about previous tastes and interests? A mystery writer and
psychologist have ideas about cellular memory that science doesn't support.
When back pain is intolerable -- and "incurable" -- patients turn
to a surgeon known as the doctor of last resort.
The asthma epidemic: 1 American in 20 now has this wheezing disease.
Tips for better summer skin. Twenty dollars goes a long way toward
protecting against summer's ravages.
Holistic vets say treatments such as acupuncture correct immune systems.
Yes, there's high-tech, low-pain dentistry. This new dentistry promises
"prettier and painless."
From a child's death, the gift of life. Losing little Nicholas devastated
my family. But our decision to donate his organs lit a spark of love
around the world.
This formerly far-out practice is winning converts -- from construction
workers to Madonna -- who want more strength and less stress. Plus,
you'll find links to sites that introduce yoga's principles and basic
positions.
Your IQ is more than just language and logic, say a growing group
of teachers.
To feed space colonies, Cornell University researchers are developing
recipes from 20 foods that can be artificially "farmed." On the menu:
soybean sloppy joes and carrot drumsticks.
Important research reveals at least 8 reasons why we make unhealthy
choices every day. Learn why it's so difficult to give up our pleasures.
I starved myself for 14 years. Eventually, at 52 pounds ... I faced
a scary choice: Eat or die. By Marya Hornbacher
Learn how irradiation works, get the word from our taste tester and
find out what Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman says about safer food.
Ingredients in shampoos, dyes and detergents may be mixing up your
hormonal signals. No one knows for sure, but the EPA is stepping up
research.
An infamous Washington D.C. think tank is asking the Food and Drug
Administration to investigate whether caffeine is bad for your health.
New research shows that more physical contact might hold the key to
better health.
A special report about the realities of men's and women's health.
Compare our scorecards to see how men and women stack up in health and
medicine.
Tips from Madonna's trainer Ray Kybartas, her primary trainer for
eight years (not to be confused with Carlos Leon, who fathered her child).
Tofu, granola -- and a nice cold beer? A new vegetarian food pyramid
touts a little alcohol and a new message.
This hectic season, fankincense could be the best gift you give yourself,
say proponents of aromatherapy.
Americans and their doctors are warming up to acupuncture. New studies
support the treatment and insurers take notice.
As cyber-medicine sites boom, some worries are brought to the forefront
by the federal Food and Drug Administration and the AMA. Visit our list
of high-profile sites specializing in medical information.
Are you exhausted? Feeling burned-out? Here are new cures as researchers
work to answer the common complaint: "I'm beat."
Twenty years ago, home pregnancy tests were a revolutionary idea.
Since then, millions have used at-home tests to screen for and manage
a variety of common medical conditions.
No drug is effective all the time, but here are 6 ways to increase
the benefit.
The sons of the late Princess Diana suffered a man's most difficult
loss. Learn why men mourn differently than women.
Experts estimate foodborne germs infect up to 81 million Americans
and cause at least 9,000 deaths a year.
A new book tells how a dose of musical medicine can lower your blood
pressure, improve your intelligence and ease pain.
It's time for America to face facts and make sweeping changes in attitude,
says the author of a tough new book, The Fat of the Land.
Laughter is a miracle drug. Now, some doctors are even prescribing
it. Laughter boosts activity of body cells that attack tumor cells and
viruses. In the works; software that can customize a humor prescription.
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