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Eat This, Not That! Eating healthy at restaurants and at home

Eat This, Not That! Eating healthy at restaurants and at home

Join us noon Wednesday, April 27, for our next live chat with Matt Goulding, co-author of the 'Eat This, Not That!' series of books  Read more...

Get kids free vaccines during National Immunization Week

Get kids free vaccines during National Immunization Week

Kids can get free vaccines during National Infant Immunization Week, which begins April 23, and all year at the Orange County Health...  Read more...

Aging out of allergies

Aging out of allergies

Sensitivities can fall away, and sometimes treatment involves cozying up to the enemy.  Read more...

Amino acid targets compulsive hair pulling

Amino acid targets compulsive hair pulling

I have suffered from trichotillomania for years, and I am desperate for some help.  Read more...

New tools to help kids with speech disorders

New tools to help kids with speech disorders

It sounds almost adorable when a toddler says "wabbit" instead of rabbit or "thocks" instead of socks, but those mispronunciations —...  Read more...

Using video to fight workplace stress

Using video to fight workplace stress

By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times

People in all professions are using Xtranormal's easy technology and flat-voiced teddy bears to vent about work. Experts say humor does help.

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Tweaked helmet would better protect our troops

Tweaked helmet would better protect our troops

A slightly larger helmet with more foam padding would better protect soldiers and Marines from traumatic brain injury, researchers find. The...

Gear: Getting taken for a ride

Gear: Getting taken for a ride

Likes and dislikes of the Michelin Protek Max flat-proof inner tube, Ergon PC2 pedals, Specialized Purist water bottle and the LeMond...

Booster Shots

Exercise with your pooch and both of you will lose your paunch

Painkiller abuse education part of FDA plan

Dieters can get out of 'healthy' food trap by checking ingredients

What lies within the incredible, edible, marshmallow Peep?

Do you and your dog have matching love handles? Get tips on exercising with your pet

Bullying: Massachusetts study links bullying, family violence

Swearing is clearly not only way to relieve pain

Dieters find 'healthy' food labels can be tricky

Well, $#!* Swearing is good for you, sort of.

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What you have in common with air traffic controllers: sleep deprivation

What you have in common with air traffic controllers: sleep deprivation

Well-publicized incidents of air traffic controllers and others sleeping at inappropriate times point us to science that suggests most people need at least eight hours of sleep a night.

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April: Pain

Pain: Time to Take Charge

Pain can be minor, recurring, constant, controlling, overwhelming. Pain relief can be just as individualized. This collection will help explain which remedy is most likely to work for you -- and why.

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Weight-Loss Surgery With One Little Cut

Weight-loss surgery with one little cut

With single-incision laparoscopic surgery, a half-inch cut is made in the umbilicus, or belly button.

Finding a path through the health insurance 'gobbledygook'

Finding a path through the health insurance 'gobbledygook'

The tale of one freelance journalist's navigation through the individual health insurance market in a rural area.

Confusion alert: When prevention and treatment mix, who pays?

Confusion alert: When prevention and treatment mix, who pays?

If doctors find and remove a polyp, which can be cancerous, some private insurers and Medicare hit the patient with a surprise: charges that...

No evidence coffee ups risk of high blood pressure

No evidence coffee increases risk of high blood pressure

Despite earlier concerns, downing lots of coffee doesn't seem to increase the risk of high blood pressure, according to a new report --...

U.S. Republicans seek to reassure elderly on Medicare

U.S. Republicans seek to reassure elderly on Medicare

Elderly voters could be pivotal in the 2012 election, where both Democrats and Republicans will be judged for proposed cuts to the federal...

New studies point to clot risk of Bayer's Yasmin

New evidence emerged on Friday that women taking Bayer's best-selling contraceptive may run a higher risk of dangerous blood clots than...

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Bed Bugs: Outbreaks, preventive tips and more">Bed Bugs: Outbreaks, preventive tips and more

Getting Better: Your guide to a healthy year">Getting Better: Your guide to a healthy year

Obesity: Tips, lessons, ways and reasons to change">Obesity: Tips, lessons, ways and reasons to change

Consumer Health: News, features and explainers you can use">Consumer Health: News, features and explainers you can use

Health insurance and reform: What you need to know">Health insurance and reform: What you need to know

Fitness: The latest workout news and advice">Fitness: The latest workout news and advice

Medicine: Research, diagnosis, treatment and healthcare delivery">Medicine: Research, diagnosis, treatment and healthcare delivery

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Back pain is a complicated issue

Murky waters of eating fish while pregnant

Karen Voight: Good Form: An aah twist to stretch the spine

Nancy Pelosi holds town hall meeting in Orlando, vows to fight Medicare 2011 changes

Seniors' sex lives are up — and so are STD cases

New ephedrine database blocks sales of cold medicine used in Florida meth labs

Bottled water or tap water? Debate still rages on which is better

Fitness centers pump up Fashion Square, Oviedo, Osceola Square malls

UCF earns accreditation for new nursing doctorate

Scott endorses pain-pill database
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