Travel-sized tips for getting through the germs this holiday season

Heading over the river and through the woods this holiday season? (Or over the highways and through the nation’s skies, more like.) With H1N...

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization, Part VII

Jaw Development During Adolescence Beginning at about age 11, the skull undergoes a growth spurt. This corresponds roughly with the growth ...

Christmas Elf

Health

Health has been defined by the World Health Organization as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being". It thus ...

Does America Have the Best Health Care in the World?

Americans don't think so : According to Americans, the United States does not have the best health care in the world. Most see our heal...

Health Insurance

Without health insurance, citizens often are unable to pay for the medical care they need, and frequently forego preventive measures that wo...

Let the Pyramid guide your food choices

D ifferent foods contain different nutrients and other healthful substances. No single food can supply all the nutrients in the amounts you ...

Obesity increases a person's risk of illness and death due to diabetes, stroke, heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, and kidne...

Where's That Then? No 1

Having run out of Find The Fault pictures for a while, I thought it would be interesting to look at period photographs of citys, towns, vill...