Is your meat rare or well-done? Do your clothes match, or do they clash? People who are color blind tend to have a harder time answering questions like those. OK, a rarer-than-wanted steak or a fash...

Even in this age of high-tech tests, doctors can learn crucial information about a patient’s health just by smelling his/her breath. For example, breath that smells fruity may indicate the presence ...

It’s easy to figure out how to take a medication. You just read the instructions on the label. What’s not always clear is how to stop. Many drugs are “on-off”—if you are taking, say, aspiri...

You may not need all the drugs you’re taking… Nearly 60% of the prescription medications taken by patients aren’t needed. That’s what researchers discovered in a study published in Archives o...

Is it really true that you can pick up diseases simply from having the bottoms of your bare feet come in contact with germs? Or is the flip-flop admonition one you can safely ignore? We knew exactly...

“Oh, no!” my mother-in-law gasped when I started to stick some toothpicks into the plateful of hors d’oeuvres I was arranging. “Please don’t use those things. They’re terribly dangerous.�...

We’ve all seen dramatic scenes in movies in which a person suffers a heart attack following an angry outburst…after hearing of the death of a loved one…or while having sex. But that’s just Ho...

Teeth show your age just as much as drooping muscles or sagging skin. Even if you get regular dental care and keep your teeth white, you might want to consider other dental enhancements. Age-related c...

Recently, a friend had a doctor’s appointment. During the visit, the doctor told him that his cholesterol levels were low enough that he could stop taking Lipitor, the cholesterol-lowering statin dr...

Quiz: What group of people binge drinks most frequently? I’ll bet that many readers would answer, “Beer-swilling college kids.” But they’d be wrong. Astonishingly, the correct answer is…se...