It was somewhere between being handed the oversized model of teeth and the shiny silver pen so I could sign the orthodontic contract that I sort of faded out a bit. The number that had just been mumbled so matter-of-factly was hanging in the air and I was feeling a tad faint. “Umm, excuse me, [...]

Moms everywhere know this: When it comes to being pregnant, everybody carries differently. Nothing illustrates this better than the burgeoning bods of reality queen Kim Kardashian and future queen Kate Middleton (both reportedly scheduled to deliver around the same time). The latter is the envy of the pregnant population – carrying gracefully, all in her [...]

Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have pooped in the pool. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked with state and local public health departments last summer to collect samples from pool filters at 161 pools in the [...]

An amino acid commonly found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients has been discovered in the spinal fluid of people without dementia whose close relatives were diagnosed with the disease, according to a study led by Duke University researchers. The researchers also found people closely related to an Alzheimer’s patient were more likely to have [...]

There comes a time in every woman’s life when she takes stock of her bountiful blessings and astonishing good fortune and says, often aloud: Something’s gotta go. I decided on my abs. It was a fairly straightforward decision, since, in all honesty, I let them go years ago. In my early 30s, they housed a [...]

Like many modern women, my identity all too often over the years has been wrapped up in how much I weigh, what size jeans I wear, and how big my derriere looks walking away. For amother of three, who has thrice gained 35-50 pounds and grown size EE breasts, this is the problem that keeps [...]

Ann Flood woke up shortly after 8 a.m. to the beep of the feeding tube machine in her daughter’s room. Sun rays bounced off the glistening ice outside and through her window as Ann rose, invigorated. She could not remember the last time she had slept so much and so well. Definitely not since Lauren’s [...]