Harvard Medical School commentaries on health
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Commentaries written by Harvard physicians on the questions that people face every day related to fitness, nutrition, parenting, heart health, mental health, men's and women's health.
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The 3, 6 and 9s of Healthy Fats -- The '8 Glasses per Day' Rule -- The 10 Commandments of Cancer Prevention -- 10 Flu Myths -- 10 New Year's Resolutions for Good Health -- 10 Osteoporosis Myths -- 10 Ways To Make Your Recipes Healthier -- 2006 Update on Childhood and Adolescent Immunizations -- 2009 Immunization Schedule -- 2010 Immunization Schedule -- 2011 Immunization Schedule -- Abdominal Obesity and Your Health -- Accutane, Pregnancy, and Mental Health -- Acne -- What Parents Need to Know -- Acne And The Role Of Diet -- Acupuncture for Erectile Dysfunction? -- Adding a Pet to the Family -- The Aerobic Side of Fitness -- Age and Arthritis - Facts and Fiction -- Air Pollution -- Airing Out a Lung Cancer Myth -- Airports - Avoid the High-Fat Food Trap -- Alkaline Diets and Cancer: Fact or Fiction -- All About Breastfeeding -- Allergies: When Nuts Are Not Healthy -- Alzheimer's Disease - Where Are We Today? -- Am I Sexually Normal? -- Anatomy 101 -- Anemia, Fatigue and Iron Deficiency: Facts and Myth -- Angioplasty Or Bypass Graft Surgery? -- The Angry Adolescent -- Anti-Acid Medicines - Is Long-Term Use Safe? -- Antibiotic Resistant Super Bugs -- Anxiety and Heart Disease - What's the Connection? -- Are All NSAIDs Dangerous? -- Are All Steroids Bad? -- Are Beans the Magical Food? -- Are Beer And Wine Less Strong Than Liquor? -- Are Energy Drinks Safe? -- Are Moods and Behaviors Contagious? -- Are Multivitamins Worth the Money? -- Are You Due for an Oil Change? -- Are You In, Out or Post-Menopause -- Are You Paying Too Much for Your Heart Medications? -- Are You Sick of Morning Sickness? -- Are You Worried Well? -- Are the New Stents Safe? -- The Arguments Against Dietary Supplements -- Arthritis - From Myth to Fact -- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- Attention Shoppers: Beware Of Health Claims -- Autism - Act Early To Make a Difference -- Autism and Older Fathers -- Avoiding Heat-Related Illness -- Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss -- Baby Bottle Tooth Decay -- Back To The Stone Age -- Back to School Safety Tips -- Balancing A Vegetarian Meal -- Beat the Heat - Stay Hydrated! -- Behavior Modification - Could it Help You Reach Your Weight-Management Goals? -- The Benefits of Cooking with Your Kids -- The Benefits of Probiotics -- Best Bargain Bites -- The Best Smartphone Apps to Stay Healthy -- The Best Ways to Deal with a Fever -- Biking and Sex - The 'Vicious Cycle' -- Birth-Control Pills 101 -- Bladder Cancer - Men at Risk -- Blood Pressure and Your Brain -- 'Body Art' And Your Teen -- Bone Up On Osteoporosis -- Boosters for Antidepressant Treatment -- Botox for Men of a Certain Age -- Boy or Girl? Determining a Baby's Gender -- Brain Medicine - Reach Out and Touch Someone -- Brand Name vs. Generic Antidepressants: What's the Difference? -- Breakfast ... Don't Leave Home Without It -- Breaking Down Bone Myths -- Breast Problems in Men -- Bringing Down Stress Levels -- Broken Heart Syndrome -- Built for Motion: Take Charge of Your Body! -- Burning Calories with Exercise -- Busting Myths About Your Stomach -- 
CPR: Less Effective Than You Might Think -- CT Scans of the Heart - Ready for Prime Time -- CT Scans: The Next Wave in Heart Care -- Calcium - The Food vs. Supplement Debate -- Calling in the Replacements -- Can Coffee Really Stunt Your Growth? -- Can Diet Improve Arthritis Symptoms? -- Can Exercise Be Bad for You? -- Can Nutritional Supplements Enhance Athletic Performance? Part 1 -- Can Nutritional Supplements Enhance Athletic Performance? Part 2 -- Can Sex Be a Health Hazard? -- Can Vitamin Supplements Protect Your Brain? -- Can We Predict Height -- Can You Become Addicted to Chocolate? -- Can You Become Immune To Medications? -- Can You Really Throw Your Back Out? -- Can You Wear Out Your Joints? -- Can Your Diet Affect Fertility? -- Cancer Update: Two Studies Worth Heeding -- Cancer's Fine Line -- The Cancer, Sunshine and Vitamin D Connection -- Car Safety Seats - Changes to Make Now -- Car-Seat Safety -- Carbohydrate Confusion -- Carbohydrates - Good or Bad for You? -- Cardiac Patients with Arthritis: Advice for the Post-Vioxx Era -- Caregiver Stress: Is There Help for the Helpers? -- The Case for Moderation -- Caution - Grapefruit and Medication -- Cautions About Reflux Relief -- Celiac Disease - An Overlooked Disorder -- Changes in the 2008 Immunization Schedule -- Cherries for Gout - Myth or Marvel? -- Child Abuse Prevention -- Childhood Immunization Update - 2007 -- Children Attacking Other Children -- Children and Breakfast - Follow Your Intuition -- Children and Sleep: What Parents Need to Know -- Children and Swimming Lessons - What Parents Should Know -- Children and Teen Fitness -- Children's Headaches - What Parents Need to Know -- Chocolate - Health Boon or Bust? -- Chocolate: Just another Sweetie or the Real Thing? -- Choosing Your Six-Pack: Abdominal Muscles and Pot Bellies -- Choosing a Babysitter - What Parents Need To Know -- Choosing a Healthy Breakfast Cereal -- Choosing a Medicare-Approved Drug Discount Card -- Choosing a Preschool Program -- Chronic Constipation: A Strain on health -- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Names and Claims -- Chronic Fatigue: When Exercise Makes You Feel Worse -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: It Takes Your Breath Away -- Circulation Troubles: What Do They Mean? -- Circumcision: What Parents Need To Know -- Circumspection For Circumcision -- Climate Change and Your Health -- Clinical Trials Part II -- Clinical Trials: Part I -- Coffee - Grounds For Concern? -- The Coffee Bean -- Not a Fiend -- Combating the Fungus Among Us -- Common Conditions with Misleading Symptoms -- Common Versus Rare Conditions -- Compulsive Buying - When Pleasure Turns to Pain -- Computer Use And Carpal Tunnel Syndrome -- The Concepts of Conception: What to Ignore about Getting Pregnant -- Consternation About Constipation -- Contain Yourself -- The Language of Your Body's Linings -- Cramps: What They Are, What To Do - Cyberbullying -- Dance Your Way to Fitness -- A Dangerous Myth: It's Over-the-Counter, It Must Be Safe -- Dealing With PMS -- Dealing with Unintentional Weight Loss -- Debating The Use Of Growth Hormone In Healthy But Short Children --
Debunking the 50-50 Heart Disease Myth -- December Holiday Safety Tips -- Decoding Common Skin Conditions -- Decoding Disease Names -- Decoding Food Labels -- Decoding the "Plasties" -- Decoding the '-Omas' -- Decrease your risk of falling -- Defending Against Disease With an Anti-Inflammation Lifestyle -- Depression in Children -- Despite Benefit, Drug Prices Still High For Seniors -- Detecting Heart Problems in Athletes -- Detox Diets - Purification or Pure Fabrication?-- Diet and ADHD -- Diet and Age Related Macular Degeneration -- Diet and Diverticulitis -- Discount Prescription Drugs and Medicare -- Disease-Fighting Phytonutrients -- A Disease-Prevention Diet for Men -- Dissolving the Mysteries of Salt -- Distracted Driving - Fast Lane to Disaster -- Dizziness - What Causes This Common Complaint? -- Do Alternative Treatments and Vitamin Supplements Work? -- Do Big Voices Need Big Bodies? -- Do Kids Need Sports and Energy Drinks? -- Do Personality Disorder Diagnoses matter? -- Do Presidents Age Faster? -- Do You Need C-Reactive Protein Testing? -- Do Your Kids Have The Holiday 'Gimmes' -- Doctor, How Long Have I Got? -- Does A Sneeze Mean Disease? -- Does Being a 'Lefty' Affect Your Health? -- Does Breast Size Matter -- Does Breastfeeding Reduce the Risk of Allergies? -- Does Diet Affect Cancer Recurrence? -- Does Diet Play A Role In Arthritis? -- Does Eating Late Make You Gain Weight? -- Does Everyone Need Psychological Help After a Tragic Event? -- Does Metabolism Matter in Weight Loss? -- Does Milk Cause Prostate Cancer? -- Does Money Motivate Healthy Behavior? -- Does Nighttime Noshing Make You Fat? -- Dogs - A Source of Love and Well-Being -- Don't Be Sidelined By Exercise Injuries -- Don't Be a Wheelchair Potato! -- Don't Dismiss Dairy! -- Don't Fall for These Skin Myths -- Don't Let Osteoarthritis Keep You Down -- Don't Let Your Exercise Routine Suffer the Bad Weather Blues! -- Don't Make Your Vacation a Holiday From Exercise -- Don't Overlook Vitamin K -- (Don't Take Breast Cancer Lying Down Part 1) -- (Don't Take Breast Cancer Lying Down Part 2) -- The Downsides of Multitasking -- Drinking and Driving: Keep Your Teens Safe -- (Drug Therapy and Your Genes Part 1) -- Drug-Coated Stents: A Revolution in Cardiac Care -- 'Dys' Can Help You Understand Your Doctor -- Dysphagia -- "Medical Speak" for Trouble Swallowing -- Ear Tubes - What Parents Need to Know -- Eat Less to Live Longer -- Eat Your Way to a Healthy Smile -- Eating Disorders in Older Women -- Eating Well, Thinking Straight -- Eating and Swimming -- Eating for Two -- Ecstasy, Genetics, and Depression -- Eggs - All They're Cracked Up To Be -- The Emotional Strain of Infertility -- End Your Weight Loss Struggles -- Energy Drinks - Use Caution -- Enjoy Guilt-Free Holiday Eating -- Ensuring Happy Campers -- (Erectile Dysfunction ED) -- Erectile Dysfunction and Heart Disease: Surprising Bedfellows -- Erectile Dysfunction: The Bad News and the Bad News -- Exercise - No Pain, Big Gains -- Exercise Is Always Good For You -- Exercise and Mental Performance -- Exercise and Your Menstrual Cycle: Does the Time of the Month Matter? -- (Exercising During Pregnancy Part 1) -- (Exercising During Pregnancy Part 2) -- "Expired" Medicines: Are They Safe? -- Exploring Medical Syndromes -- Fabulous Fiber -- Facing a High Risk for Breast Cancer -- Fainting - Harmless or a Red Flag? -- Fall Safety -- Fat - Friend Or Foe? -- Feet Matter -- Fending Off Flu With Food -- Fighting Childhood Obesity -- Fighting Peripheral Arterial Disease Through Exercise -- Financial Stress Affects Kids, Too -- Fit and Fat -- Does it Matter -- Fitness in the Sun -- Five Tips for Healthy Restaurant Eating -- Flu Vaccine: Who Should and Who Should Not Get the Shot -- Fluid Replacement and Exercise -- Folic Acid - Not Just for Pregnant Women -- Food Preservatives: Reading the "Not-So-Fine" Print -- The Food-Mood Connection -- Foods That Fight Inflammation -- Foot Fitness -- For Alcohol Problems: Abstinence or Moderation? -- For Health, Pair Fitness with Food -- Forget What You Heard About Amnesia -- Four Common Myths About Allergies -- Four Food Myths - Busted -- Fourth of July Safety Tips -- A Free Program for Families Dealing with Mental Illness -- The French Paradox - Should We Be More Like the French? -- From Ulcers To Deodorant - Dispelling Teen Myths -- Fruits And Veggies: Are Five Daily Servings Enough? -- The Fusion of Good Taste and Good Nutrition --
GERD - Heartburn and More -- Gas: Beat the Bloat -- Gastric Surgery - The Cure For Obesity -- Gender Differences in Cardiac Care -- Gender Matters in Health -- Genetically Modified Foods - What's On Your Plate? -- Get Your Body Back, Mommy -- Get a Taste for Nutrition -- Getting 'Hyper' -- Getting Over Dental Fears -- Getting a Flu Shot - Will It Cause the Flu? -- Getting the Best Value for Hypertension Medications -- Give Your Kids A Safe Summer -- Golf and Your Health -- Good Nutrition in Bad Weather - Goosebumps -- Gout - A Common Cause of Joint Pain -- Groin Injuries And Your Voice -- Growing Pains: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia -- Growing Pains -- Guard Your Child Against Accidental Injuries -- A Guide to Health Clubs -- Guidelines For Treating Earaches In Children -- Guys - Start Protecting Your Brain Now! -- HDL Cholesterol - How To Get More of a Good Thing -- HPV Vaccine - What Parents Need To Know -- HPV Vaccine -- Important Information for Parents -- (Hair Pulling Disorder Trichotillomania) - Is It Taken Too Lightly? -- The Hair-Raising Myth About Shaving -- A Hairy Situation -- Halting Hypertension with a Healthy Diet -- A Handful of Fingernail Myths -- The Hazards Of Bathroom Seats -- The Hazards of Hookah -- Head Lice? No Need To Panic -- Health Advice in Chat Rooms and on Bulletin Boards -- Health And Safety Concerns At The Beauty Salon -- Healthy Eating in Wintertime -- Healthy Eating, Healthy Kids -- Healthy Makeover for Mommy -- Heard Any Good Fish Stories Lately? -- Heart Disease & Depression - A Two-Way Street? -- Heartburn Relief -- Heat Wave-Don't Be a Seasonal Statistic -- 'Helicopter Parenting' -- When Too Much Help Is No Help -- Help for Anxious Children -- Help for Changing How You Think -- Help for Couples Facing a Serious Illness -- Help for Excessive Perspiration -- Help for Insomnia -- Helping Your Child Cope with a Disaster -- Helping Your Child Sleep Independently -- Helping Your Child Transition to Middle School -- Helping Your Child With Homework -- Helping a Widow Cope with Grief -- Hernias - Three Questions You Need To Ask -- Hidden Dangers of Over-the-Counter Cold and Allergy Medicines -- High Cholesterol: Lowering Your Risk and Your Drug Bill -- Highlight on Drugs: Stocking Your Medicine Cabinet -- Hints for Safe Summer Eating -- His and Her Vitamins - Smart Medicine or Marketing Ploy? -- Holiday Food Safety for Your Kitchen -- Holiday Time - Start Your Family Health History -- Home Monitoring for Blood Thinners Comes of Age -- Hot Seats, Laptops, Cell Phones and Sperm -- How Aging Affects Male Sexuality -- How Alcoholics Anonymous Works -- How Diseases Come and Go -- How Good Are the Drugs to Prevent and Treat the Flu -- How Helpful Are Birthing Classes? -- How Inhaling Helium Affects Your Voice -- How Low Should Your Blood Pressure Be? -- How Much Exercise Do You Need? -- How Much Exercise Is Enough? -- How Much of the Brain Do We Really Use? -- How Often Should You Eat? -- How Pets Affect Your Health -- How Safe Is Your School? -- How Sleep Affects Learning and Memory -- How Sweet It Is! An Update on Artificial Sweeteners -- How To Avoid Foodborne Illnesses -- How To Eat and Drink for Long Workouts -- How To Eat for Endurance Exercise -- How To Get More Nutritional Bang for Your Buck -- How To Handle A Seizure -- How To Keep the Summer Bugs Away -- How To Praise Your Kids -- How To Prevent Flat Spots on Your Baby's Head -- How To Prevent the Most Common Cause of Choking in Kids -- How To Stay Young -- Really! -- How Your Doctor Looks at Research: the Error Factor -- How to Manage Irritable Bowel Syndrome -- How to Talk to Your Kids about Drugs -- How to Understand When Your Doctor Talks Statistics -- Human Growth Hormone and the Search for the Fountain Of Youth -- Human Growth Hormone -- Hypnosis - Mental Health Therapy -- 'Hypo'-thetically Speaking - Hypoglycemia -- 'I'm Such a Klutz!' -- Immunization Updates for 2013 -- Immunizations Updates for 2012 -- The Importance of Play -- The Importance of Reading to Your Child -- The Importance of Recess -- Improving Low Back Pain with Exercise -- In Search of the Elusive Aphrodisiac: Sex, Food and Myth -- The Influence Of Sugar On Childhood Behavior -- Influenza -- Just the Flu? -- Intermittent Explosive Disorder Grabs Attention -- The Intestinal Infection Triggered by Antibiotics -- Introducing Solid Foods: Eight Keys to Success -- Iron - There's Nothing Small About This Micronutrient -- Is Bariatric Surgery for You? -- (Is Being Male Hazardous to Your Health? Intelihealth version) -- Is Gout a Rich Person's Disease -- Is Kissing Dangerous? -- Is Splitting Pills Okay? -- Is Your Child Getting Enough Sleep -- Is a Man in Your Life Depressed -- The Itch That Won't Go Away: How to Deal With Recurrent Vaginal Infections -- Jaundice in Newborns: Common but Potentially Serious --
Keep Your Child Safe around Pets in the Home or Classroom -- Keep Your Digestive System in Shape -- Keep Your Teen Driver Safe and Alive -- Keeping - Or Not Keeping - Your Internet Use Under Control -- Keeping Kids Safe - Without Scaring Them -- Keeping Things Straight: Posture and Scoliosis -- Keeping Up With Your New Year's Resolutions -- Keeping Your Young Athlete Healthy and Happy -- Key Fat for Your Health: Omega-3 -- Kids Snacks - Resisting the Lure of Cartoon Characters -- Kids and Flu Shots -- What's New -- The Latest Food and Nutrition Trends -- Worth the Money? -- Learning Disabilities: What to Look for and What to Do -- Learning From History -- Learning How To Say 'I'm Sorry.' -- Leaving a Mark -- How and Why We Scar -- Leeches: An Ancient Therapy Is Revived -- Letting Go and Letting Your Brain Make the Decision -- Licking Your Wounds -- The Lie of Lie Detectors -- Lifestyle Changes - Do They Work? -- Lifting The Myth Off Hernias -- Light Smoking - Unsafe in Any Dose -- The Limits of Willpower -- The Link Between ADHD and Sleep Problems -- The Little Things We Do -- Living Longer by Getting Fit -- Living Well with Heart Failure -- Living With Amiodarone -- Living with Asthma: Help Your Child Breathe Easy -- Losing Weight Helps Promote Cancer Survivorship -- Low-Back Pain -- Low-Carb, High-Protein Diets -- Lower Your Blood Pressure With Exercise -- Lower the "Bad" Cholesterol for Your Own Good -- Lowering Drug Costs after Canada Dries Up -- Lung Cancer - Is It Time To Start Screening? -- Maggots and Wound Healing -- A 'Magnetic' Approach to Treating Depression -- Make the Most of Your Child's Doctor Visit -- Making Sense Of Medical Warnings -- Making Sense of Common Hormone Tests -- Man to Man: The Metabolic Syndrome -- Man to Man: Tips for a Healthy Summer -- (Man-To-Man: The "Weaker" Sex Is Healthier original) -- Managing Diabetes Through Exercise -- Managing Emotional Eating -- Managing Sibling Rivalry -- The Many Faces of Heart Disease -- Many Ways to Say Normal -- Mastering the Mindful Meal -- Math in Medicine: Know Your 'Rithmetic -- Meat Labels - What Do They Really Mean? -- Meat or Beans -- Which Has the Biggest Nutritional Payoff? -- Medical Doctors Versus Spin Doctors: Sorting Through Conflicting Information -- Medical Enemy #1: Heart Disease -- Medical Myth Prevention --- Understanding Medical News -- Medical Myths Die Hard -- Medical Myths: Does Food Cause Ulcers? -- Medical Terminology - When Size Matters -- Medical Terminology -- Blood Vessel Disease -- Medical Terminology -- The Case For Accuracy -- Medical Test Results: Are You Normal, and Is That a Good Thing? -- Mediterranean Eating: A Myriad of Benefits -- Men - Protect Yourself from Deep Venous Thrombosis -- Men - Respect Your Blood Pressure -- Men -- How Much Water Do You Need? -- Men and Headaches -- Menopause Makeover -- Menstrual Synchrony -- Mental Distress: Where Do You Turn for Help? -- The Mental Health Benefits of Expressive Writing -- The Mental Health Benefits of Gratitude -- Mental Illness and Violence -- The Mercury Myth -- Metabolic Syndrome - Lifestyle Changes Are Key -- The Metabolic Syndrome: A Menace to Men's Health -- Milk Myths -- Mixing Antibiotics and Alcohol -- Monitoring the Media, On-Screen and Online -- A More Rational Approach to Dietary Supplements -- Motivating Behavior Change -- Move for the Cure: Exercise to Lose Weight -- My Left or Yours? Describing Locations in Medicine -- Mysterious Acronyms -- The Mystery of Muscle Relaxation -- The Mystery of the 'Opathies' -- The Myth and Mystery of Hiccups -- The Myth of 98.6 -- The Myth of Bags Under the Eyes -- The Myth of Multitasking -- The Myth of Stress and Hair Color -- The Myth of the First Time -- Myth: Modern Medicine is Wiping Out Disability -- Myths About Snoring -- Myths About Vision -- Myths about Your Incredible Head --
The Naked Truth About Baldness -- Name That Drug -- Nasal Allergies - Nothing To Sneeze At -- Natural Disasters -- Sources of Disease? -- Navigating the Supermarket: No GPS Needed -- Nearing a Cancer Cure? -- Never Too Old or Frail to Exercise -- New Advice About Giving Solid Foods to Infants -- New Approaches to Hot Flashes in Men -- A New Clue to Bipolar Disorder -- A New Diet To Manage Irritable Bowel Syndrome -- The New Dietary Guidelines - Good Advice for Men -- The New Hypertension Guidelines: What They Mean For You -- New Moms: Welcome Relief from Hand Pain -- New Preventive Health Guidelines for Children -- New Year's Resolutions Your Kids Can Make -- New Year's Resolutions for Cardiac Patients -- New vaccines: The long road to official recommendation -- Newer But Perhaps Not Better -- Nightmares and Other Sleep Disturbances -- Nighttime Overeating -- No Match For Tick Removal -- Nocebo -- The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect -- Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity -- A GI Disorder of Its Own -- Nosebleeds - Separating Fact From Fiction -- Not So Fast: Why Your Doctor Is Skeptical -- Now Hear This - Noise Can Make You Deaf -- Nurturing A Child's Creativity -- Nutrients: Can You Have Too Much of A Good Thing? -- Nutrition and Aging -- Nutrition: The Mediterranean Diet -- Nuts and Your Health -- Cracking Old Myths -- Obesity Surgery: Is It for You? -- Obesity: How Can We Help Our Kids? -- (Oh Nutritious) Nuts! -- Old Age: It's Tough, But It Won't Kill You -- The Organic Advantage -- Organizing Your Lifestyle -- Organs With Plenty To Spare -- The Origin of Medical Myths -- The '-Osis' Diagnosis -- Osteoporosis and Exercise -- Our Mothers, Ourselves: Protecting Against Heart Disease -- Over-the-Counter Drug Labels -- Overcoming Cocaine or Stimulant Addiction -- Overcoming Insomnia -- Overcoming Scary Memories -- Overtraining: When Pushing Hard Is Harmful -- PSA -- Old Controversies, New Results -- PSA Quiz -- Pain, Anxiety, and Depression - A Challenging Trio to Treat -- The "Paleo Diet" -- Back to the Stone Age? -- Panic Attacks-Just Nerves? -- A Parent's Life -- Parenting to Prevent Obesity -- Parents, How Much Do You Know About Inhalants? -- Passionate About Your Coffee? Me Too. -- Peanut Allergy-when snacks can be deadly -- The Peanut Butter Puzzle -- (The Perfect Diet Really!) -- Peripheral Artery Disease -- Pesky Produce Pesticides -- Pheromones: The Scent of Sex -- Phosphorus - Backbone to Healthy Bones -- Phytonutrients for Fall -- Phytonutrients: Prevention in a Plant -- Picking A Pediatrician -- Picking the Best and Safest Toys - Read This Before You Shop -- Placebos -- What Your Doctor Is or Isn't Saying -- The Pleasure of Improvising -- Plyometric Exercise -- Poinsettia, Mistletoe and Other "Dangers" of The Holidays -- Pool Rules -- The Pope and End of Life Choices -- Positive Psychology --Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- The Postpartum Period -- Your 'Fourth' Trimester -- Power Lines And Your Health --Praying for Health -- Pregnancy after weight-loss surgery -- Premature Ejaculation -- Preparing for Your Daughter's First Period -- Prescription-Drug Costs On the Way Up Again -- Prevent Accidental Poisonings -- Prevent Drowning - Four Keys to Protect Your Child -- Preventing Cancer Is More Possible Than You Think -- Preventing Cyberbullying -- Preventing Depression in Adolescents -- Preventing Heart Disease: What Parents Need to Know -- Preventing Shoulder Injuries -- Preventing Teen Pregnancy -- The Problem with Painkillers -- Produce Safety -- The Promise and Pitfalls of Patient Empowerment -- Promoting a Healthy Body Image -- The Pros and Cons of Medical Tests -- Protect Your Child's Sight -- Protect Your Colon From Diverticular Disease -- Protect Yourself From Glaucoma -- Protecting Children From Sexual Abuse -- Protecting Your Kids From Colds and Flu -- Protecting Your Kids' Hearing -- Protecting Yourself against Drug 'Cost Shifting' -- Psoriasis - More Than Skin Deep -- Psychiatric Treatment for Preschoolers -- The Psychological Impact of Infertility and its Treatment -- Psychotherapy That Helps Your Mind and Your Emotions -- Putting the apple-a-day adage to the test -- Q&A -- The New Cholesterol Guidelines -- The Question of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery -- The Quick And Dirty On Tetanus --
RSV, Bronchiolitis and Colds -- Radiation and Your Health -- Radon: What Do You Need To Know -- Raising Your "Good" Cholesterol -- Raw Food Diet - Good for Your Health? -- Reaching the Limits of Exercise -- Reading Your Medical Record -- The Real Dangers Of Lightning -- Real-Time Medical Care -- Recommit to Your New Year's Resolutions -- Reduce Your Risk for Pre-Diabetes -- Relief From Hay Fever -- Relief for Restless Legs Syndrome -- Remembering As a Form of Therapy -- Rescue Your Knees -- Reshaping Medicare: Winners and Losers -- Resveratrol - A Fountain of Youth? -- Retrain Your Brain To Love Exercise! -- Returning to Exercise After Injury -- Rewarding Smokers To Help Them Quit -- The 'Ripening' of Cataracts -- Running and Your Joints -- SIDS -- What Parents Need To Know -- Safe Use of Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers -- Safe summer grilling tips -- Salt and Kids -- What Parents Need To Know -- Same-Sex Parenting and Marriage -- What the Experts Say -- Same-Sex Parenting: Pediatric Experts Weigh In -- Saunas and Your Health -- Savor the Flavor of Locally Grown Food -- Schizophrenia Treatment: Not by Drugs Alone -- A Scorecard on Supplements -- Secondhand Smoke - What Parents Need to Know -- Selecting a Fitness Center -- Sending Your Child Off to College -- Separation Anxiety: How To Help Your Child Be Independent -- Seven Ways To Get The Most From Your Health-Care Dollar -- The Sexualization of Girls -- Sexually Transmitted Infections in Men: Prevention Comes First -- Shingles -- A Painful Rash and More -- Shortcuts to Fitness - Do They Work? -- Should I Have a CT of My Heart? -- 'Should I Have a PSA Test?' -- Should People With High Blood Pressure Take Statins? -- Should You Avoid Dairy Foods When You're Sick? -- Should You Weigh Every Day? -- Should the FDA Be Tougher on Drug Approvals? -- Side Effects And Allergic Reactions To Medications -- Sleep - Can You Get Too Much of a Good Thing? -- Sleep Apnea: A Stealthy Cause of Depression -- Sleep and Mental Health -- Sleep: What's Going on Behind That Shut-Eye? -- Smart Sun Protection for Kids -- Smoking Cessation - New Ways To Quit -- Smoking and Dementia -- So Many Milks, So Many Choices -- Social Media - A Brief Guide for Parents -- Sometimes It's 'I Don't Know' -- Soy: Friend or Foe? -- (Special Harvard Commentary: Bird Avian) Flu -- Special Harvard Commentary: First SARS, And Now Bird Flu -- Special Harvard Commentary: Stem Cells 101 -- Spin Your Way to Fitness -- Spring Safety -- Springtime Allergy Relief for Kids -- Stevia - The Zero-Calorie, All-Natural Sweetener -- (Stocking Your Medicine Cabinet Part 1) -- (Stocking Your Medicine Cabinet Part 2) -- (Stocking Your Medicine Cabinet Part 3) -- Stomach Growling and Other Bodily Noises -- Stonewall Kidney Stone Formation -- Stormy Weather - Shocking Summer Hazards -- Strattera and Suicide Risk -- Strength Training for All Ages -- Stress and Your Stomach -- Stretching To Stay Flexible -- Stuttering -- A Surprisingly Common Problem -- Sugar's Role in Diabetes -- Summer Safety -- Sunscreens: New Rules For Parents -- Sunshine, Tea and Tomatoes: Can They Prevent Cancer? -- Super Charge Your Summer Meals -- Survival Guide for Kids' Colds - Managing Without Medication -- Surviving Baby's First Year: You Can Do It! -- Surviving Our Supersized Society -- Surviving Pregnancy Bed Rest -- Surviving the Spring Sniffles -- Swallowing Seeds - The Seeds of Worry -- The Sweet and Sour Facts About Sweeteners -- Swine Flu and Bird Flu: Questions and Answers from Harvard Medical School -- Swine Flu: Questions and Answers from Harvard Medical School -- Symptoms - Location, Location, Location --
Take Care of Your Child's Oral Health -- Take the Sneeze and Wheeze Out of Exercise -- Taking An Individualized Approach To Your Heart Care -- Taking Baby Out And About -- Taking on the School Bullies -- Taking the Bite Out of Mosquitoes -- Taking the Pain Out of Pain Relievers -- Talk To Your Child About Tobacco -- Talking to Children About Death -- Talking to Children About Illness -- Talking to Children About Social Media -- Talking to Kids About the Birds and the Bees -- Talking to Your Kids about Marijuana -- Tantrums - Understanding, Preventing and Surviving Them -- Tap Water or Bottled? -- Teaching Gratitude this Holiday Season -- And All Year Long -- Tech Speak -- Teen Pregnancy Prevention -- Teens and Tanning - What Parents Need To Know -- Teens: Respecting Their Health Privacy -- Testosterone - The 'Heart' of the Matter -- Testosterone - What It Does And Doesn't Do -- Tests You May Not Need -- (Texting and Teens - A Pediatrician and Mom) Speaks Out -- Three Great Reasons to Snack -- Three Threes for A Healthy New Year -- Thumb-Sucking - When and How To Stop It -- Tighten Those Abs! -- Time To Stop Just Saying No -- Tips for Parents for a Happy, Healthy New Year -- Tips for a Safe Halloween -- To Keep Kids Healthy, Adults Need Immunizations, Too! -- To Treat Depression, Take Action -- Toads And Frogs - Friend Or Foe? -- Top Five Digestion -- isconceptions -- Top Ten Things That Don't Cause Arthritis -- Trans-Fats Now Standard on Food Labels -- Traveling with kids -- Treating Addictions - Act Sober -- Treating Depression During Pregnancy -- Treating Depression with Exercise -- Treating High Blood Pressure - Are Two Drugs Better Than One? -- Treating Mild or Moderate Depression Without Drugs -- Treating Seasonal Affective Disorder -- Treating a Source of Violence -- Intermittent Explosive Disorder -- Treatments for Pathological Gambling -- Tricks of the Trade: What To Do if Your Child Won't Take Medicines -- The Truth About Altruism -- The Truth About Premarital Blood Testing -- The Turkey Coma - Fact or Fiction? -- Twelve Myths About Pregnancy -- Twisted Medicine -- Type 2 Diabetes in Children: A Growing Problem -- The Ultimate Natural Remedy -- Uncertainty and the Gold Standard -- Understanding Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms --Understanding Bias In Mental Health Professionals -- Understanding Organic Foods -- Understanding Why Your Doctor Says "No" -- Understanding Your Prescription Slip -- Understanding the Adolescent Brain -- Understanding the Glycemic Index -- Understanding the Placebo Response -- Understanding the Stigma of Mental Illness -- The Unexpected Benefits of 'Bad' Habits -- Unraveling the Mysteries of PCOS --
Update From the Medical Journals Column: January 2004-Update From the Medical Journals: September 2013 --
Update on Gout -- The Ups and Downs of Body Temperature -- Useless Organs -- Using Spirituality To Ease the Mind -- Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Does It Help Depression? -- The Value of Ginkgo -- The Value of Long-Term Talk Therapy -- Varenicline for Quitting Smoking: Benefits and Risks -- Video Games - What Parents Need To Know -- Video Games -- What Parents Need To Know -- Violent Video Games: Harmful or Not? -- Vitamin D - Don't Get Caught 'D-ficient' -- Vitamin D - What Parents Need To Know -- Vitamin D -- Vitamin E Supplements: RIP -- Vitamin Supplements: Are They for Everyone? -- Vitamin Therapy: A Good Idea? -- Walking - Getting the Respect it Deserves -- Walking Or Jogging: Which Is Best for You? -- (Watch Out For Whooping Cough aka Pertussis) -- Watch Out for Rabies - It Could Happen to You! -- Water Fitness -- What Are The Odds? Understanding Risk -- What Are You Yawning About? -- What Does It Mean To Be Anovulatory -- What Does PROVE-IT Prove for Your Heart? -- What I've Learned by Listening -- What It Means To Be "Double-Jointed" -- What Makes a Disease Real? -- What Makes a Drug a Drug? -- What Makes a Good Doctor? -- What Parents Should Know About Organic Foods -- What Should Your LDL Cholesterol Be? -- What Should Your LDL Cholesterol Be? -- What You Can Do About the Flu -- What You Need to Know About Fibroids -- What You Really Get Out of a Routine Physical -- What Your Doctor Doesn't Know -- What Your Doctor is Reading: August 2005 -- What Your Doctor is Reading -- What Your Doctor is Saying: A Day in the Life -- What Your Doctor is Saying: Clarifying Your Condition -- What Your Doctor is Saying: Inflammatory Words -- What Your Doctor is Saying: Name That Disease -- What Your Doctor is Saying: The Excluding Language of Medicine -- What does it take to be a satisfied retired man? -- When Older Kids Have Tantrums -- When Should a Child Get a Cell Phone? -- When Striving for Perfection Is a Problem -- When The Heart Can't Relax -- When There's Blood in Your Urine -- When Wrong Advice Is Good News -- When Your Doctor Is Vague -- When a Child Refuses To Go to School -- When the Lights Go Out -- When the Research Doctor Says, "More Study Needed" -- Whether Weather Matters for Arthritis -- Which Antidepressant Is Right for You? -- Who Needs a Gluten-Free Diet? -- Who Really Benefits From Sports Drinks -- Who's Who in Your Health Care, Part 1: In the Hospital -- Who's Who in Your Health Care, Part 2: Non-M.D.s -- Who's Who in Your Health Care, Part 2: Non-M.D.s -- Whole Foods: Not Just a Grocery Store -- Whole Wheat White bread? -- 'Whole-Body' MRI - A Good Stocking Stuffer This Holiday? -- Why Angioplasty May Not Be Right For You -- Why Buying Prescription Drugs in Canada Won't Work -- Why Certain Blood-Pressure Drugs Are Not Your Doctor's First Choice -- Why Timing Is Important in Medicine -- Why Your Child Needs a Flu Shot -- Why do we get hangovers? -- Will A Beer Really Quench That Summer Thirst? -- Winning the Fluid Game -- Winter Safety Tips for Kids -- Woman to Woman: The Experience of Miscarriage -- Women and Sleep: Not Always the Best of Friends -- Women's Health: Could The Problem Be Hormonal? -- Working and Breastfeeding -- Yikes, Lice! -- Yoga - Benefits Beyond the Mat -- Yoga - Reduce Stress and Improve Your Mood -- Yoga for the Body and Mind -- (You Make Me Feel Like) A "Natural" Woman -- (Your Genes and Drug Therapy Part 2 of 2) -- Your Guide to Statin Drugs.
Commentaries written by Harvard physicians on the questions that people face every day related to fitness, nutrition, parenting, heart health, mental health, men's and women's health.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Title from title screen (viewed 29 June 2014).
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences
Public Health - General
Also available in print version.
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