Healthful Snacks for the Chip-and-Dip Crowd
Even if you usually snack on apples and carrots, some occasions just don't seem complete without chips, dips, and other challenges to wise diets. But there are ways to have your chips and eat healthy, too.
New Ways to Heal Broken Bones
More than a million Americans suffer broken bones every year. Bone grafts, bone growth stimulators, and new kinds of replacement joints are among the treatments making recuperation easier.
Book Reopened on Infectious Diseases
Earlier this century health experts, elated by newly available vaccines and antibiotics, felt most infectious diseases no longer posed a threat. But some microbes have outmaneuvered modern medicine as old diseases resurface and new ones emerge.
On the Teen Scene: An Itch Like No Other
Yeast infections are most common in young women. Medications recently made available over-the-counter, as well as at least one new prescription product, make it easier to end the itch before it turns into pain.