Having realized the key to getting an appointment with my doctor is to pre-plan my illnesses and injuries six weeks in advance, I have switched doctors. I now doctor with Dr. Nancy Snyderman on the NBC “Today Show.” She keeps morning hours and, best of all, I don’t have to go to her – she [...]

Q: My husband and I have five kids ages 11, 10, 7, 5, and 22 months. I would love to keep activities to a minimum to give the kids more time to be kids, but I am finding that to be difficult. The two oldest are boys, and both are involved in scouting as well [...]

Q: Until recently, my 14-year-old bonus daughter rarely spoke or texted with her mom, who moved to another state. Now they are obsessively texting and talking. This started after she found out that her mom may not fly her down for a visit this year and that she had taken all the money out of [...]

Brandon Stokley got to spend some time back home before his father’s death earlier this month, even though Alzheimer’s disease had already robbed Nelson Stokley. The two men didn’t throw the football around, like they would when Brandon Stokley was young, or go golfing, which was typical when Brandon was an adult making his living [...]

War broke out on the day Rina Ranalli and her husband told their 12-year-old anorexic daughter the strict new house rules: three meals and three snacks a day. Initially, their bright and previously sweet-natured girl cried, screamed insults and raged. She threw things. Punched holes in the wall. And she pretended to eat while plotting [...]

When Patti Langdon’s doorbell rang Monday afternoon, the Tacoma, Wash., woman expected a UPS delivery. Instead, she got the son she gave up for adoption 43 years ago. Langdon, 65, and Todd Smith, 43, of Lacey, Wash., were reunited after he tracked down his birth mother through a classified ad she placed in The News [...]

For decades, parents, doctors and school administrators have worried about the dangers of drugs. In the digital age, they’ve got a new arena for concern: Sound waves that, some say, affect the brain like a drug – and cost only 99 cents on iTunes and Amazon.com. Many scientific experts say they’re unfamiliar with “digital drugs” [...]