21 spices for healthy holiday foods
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Concussion in children: What to know and do
Concussion is one of the most common injuries to the brain, affecting about two million...
Celiac disease: Exploring four myths
Celiac disease is a digestive and immune disorder that can keep the body from absorbing...
Gratitude enhances health, brings happiness — and may even lengthen lives
Several evenings a week, as Tyler VanderWeele gathers around the dinner table with his wife...
Sexual violence can cast a long shadow on health
Sexual violence occurs throughout the world. A simple definition is any sexual act for which...
Does drinking water before meals really help you lose weight?
If you’ve ever tried to lose excess weight, you’ve probably gotten this advice: drink more...
Medication side effects: What are your options?
Medications can provide a host of health benefits. They may prevent or eliminate a disease....
Prostate cancer: Short-course radiation as effective as longer-term treatments
It used to be that radiation therapy for prostate cancer involved weeks or months of...
Could imaging scans replace biopsies during prostate cancer screening?
Abnormal results on a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening test for cancer are typically followed by...
Which migraine medications are most helpful?
If you suffer from the throbbing, intense pain set off by migraine headaches, you may...