Category: PAID

For patients getting daily radiation treatments, new technology provides faster, more comfortable and more accurate treatment.

Dr. Marisa Weiss has witnessed a growing fear of breast cancer among young girls. So she and her teen daughter co-wrote the new book “Taking Care of Your ‘Girls.'” Written for teen girls, it spotlights breast health and development.

Feeling particularly stressed at work? Look around you. As the economy falters and layoffs sweep certain industries, people are more worried than ever about job security. Here’s what do you do when you think a co-worker can’t handle the strain.

Lately it has been in vogue to dismiss the advice to drink eight glasses of water a day as a “medical myth,” but it’s really more a dispute over whether the glass is half-empty or half-full.

If you go into sudden cardiac arrest in a Chicago airport, where automatic external defibrillators are plentiful, your chance of survival is greater than 50%. Statistics like that are helping fuel the drive to put more AEDs in public places.

Scores of theories were offered on what might have been done to save NBC’s Tim Russert from his sudden, fatal heart attack, but the heart still has many mysteries. The best lesson that can be learned from Russert’s tragedy is to take responsibility for…

A “senior moment” is an unscientific term for various mental glitches. While experts believe that the majority of these memory lapses are part of normal aging, “senior moments” can also be a sign of early Alzheimer’s disease.

Mild cognitive damage from bypass surgery has long been recognized by doctors, even if they seldom warn patients about it. Symptoms include short-term memory loss, slowed responses, trouble concentrating and emotional instability.

“Neuro-aerobics,” a term for engaging different parts of the brain to do familiar tasks, may well lower your risk for Alzheimer’s disease and shore up your defenses against all kinds of cognitive decline.

Eating mindfully means paying attention to what you eat and stopping just before you’re full. Eating just a few mouthfuls, and savoring the experience, can be far more satisfying than eating an entire cake mindlessly.