When Google Health was introduced in 2008, Marissa Mayer, a Google executive, said it would be a “large ongoing initiative” that the company hoped would attract millions of regular users.
Mary Ann Wilmarth, chief of physical therapy at Harvard University Health Services, has 13-year-old Cassidy do yoga exercises to improve her posture.
Get up and stretch or do exercises to strengthen your abdominal muscles, or attend classes, which will help your posture.
Secure DNS is expected to make e-mail and e-commerce more secure, end the proliferation of passwords and raise the bar significantly for Internet scam artists, spies and troublemakers.
A deadly strain that killed at least 45 people has resurfaced, worrying health experts.
With Facebook, if you think your child needs you to find a birth parent, you are fooling yourself.
Initiatives include creating a database on food stocks, a joint international research program on wheat and a “rapid response forum” to address crises.
Marsha M. Linehan works with seriously suicidal people, having faced the same struggles when she was younger.
Scientists say that the combination may be what made the outbreak among the deadliest in recent history.
This dish is an Italian classic from the Lombardy region.
Because his care givers relied too much on assumptions, a drug user who served time in jail spent eight years in treatment for H.I.V. infection, needlessly.
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In the news: Credit scores, pets and a new tick hazard. Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
New federal regulations on sunscreen labeling are set to take effect next year, but you shouldn’t wait to do all you can to protect your skin.
Many parents worry that keeping a dog or cat in the home increases a child's chance of developing pet allergies.
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An unimaginable diagnosis is followed by worry, fear and tough decisions. Six people speak about how childhood cancer changed their lives.
Experts discuss biofilms and the underlying causes of chronic sinusitis.
A Supreme Court decision makes it easier for companies to collect data from pharmacies and harder for states to protect consumers’ privacy.
Regulators said that there were no risk-free doses of Epogen, Aranesp and Procrit and that doctors should use the medicines only in patients suffering from severe anemia.
The implantable device is designed to correct the irregularity in contractions of the heart’s ventricles that sometimes occurs in people with heart failure.
These crepes make a wonderful main course for a vegetarian dinner party.
Inflammation, and not necessarily infection, is the common theme in chronic sinusitis.
Articles in this series examine issues arising from the increasing use of medical radiation and the new technologies that deliver it.
Tim Parks details his suffering from chronic pain and explains how he found relief from an unexpected source.
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