When their kids turn 12, parents are concerned about peers pressuring them to smoke cigarettes, drink and use drugs, but it turns out 12-year-olds are doing something else: getting high on inhalants. Read more from the original source: Report: 12-year-olds abusing inhalants  Read More →

An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness. Excerpt from: Bacterial meningitis reportedly kills student  Read More →

When a friend is depressed, it’s hard to know what to say. But by simply reaching out, you may help avert a tragedy the like one Marie Osmond’s family experienced. Here’s how to gently help. Read more here: How to save a friend from the brink  Read More →

Sure, you could always be more organized, more cheerful, more on top of every little detail. But you’re not a Mombot, thank goodness, and no one (except, perhaps, you!) expects you to be. Read more from the original source: 31 reasons for no mom guilt  Read More →

As much as 16 percent of the U.S. population between the ages of 14 and 49 has genital herpes, according to a government study released Tuesday. Originally posted here: CDC: Herpes still ’serious’ threat  Read More →

I have been diagnosed with chronic sinusitis. It would seem like every six months or so, I have an episode where I am unable to go to work for about three days because I develop a temperature, swollen lymph nodes, (recently, swollen, inflammed tonsils) headaches and skin flora on my scalp. How is skin flora associated with sinusitis? Will this ever stop? Here is the original post: What can I do... 

Healthier men, no matter their age, are going to have better sex more frequently and desire it more often than healthier women. Original post: Healthier men want more sex for more years  Read More →

People come up to Aimee Mullins all the time and say, “you know, I have to tell you, you just don’t look disabled.” Read the rest here: ‘You just don’t look disabled’  Read More →

This week, Dr. Charles Raison offers part two of his answer to the viewer question: Can a 9- or 10-year-old be bipolar? Read the original: Bipolar being diagnosed younger  Read More →

Francisca Terrazas and other Latinas are about 1.5 times more likely than Anglos to develop Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, a new report says. Read how her family copes. Excerpt from: Minorities’ higher Alzheimer’s risk  Read More →